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DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS
Volume 247, Issue 1, Pages 75-84Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24558
Keywords
spinal cord injury; neural stem cell; transplantation; neuronal relay
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- MEXT KAKENHI [16H06527]
- Mitsubishi Foundation
- Suzuken Memorial Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H06527] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Injury to the spinal cord causes transection of axon fibers and neural cell death, resulting in disruption of the neural network and severe functional loss. Reconstruction of the damaged neural circuits was once considered to be hopeless as the adult mammalian central nervous system has very poor ability to regenerate. For this reason, there is currently no effective therapeutic treatment for spinal cord injury (SCI). However, with recent developments in stem cell research and cell culture technology, regenerative therapy using neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation has rapidly been developed, and this therapeutic strategy makes it possible to rebuild the destroyed neural circuits. In this review, we discuss the recent breakthroughs in NSC transplantation therapy for SCI. Developmental Dynamics 247:75-84, 2018. (c) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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