| Literature DB >> 16919606 |
Tong Zheng1, Candace Rossignol, Avital Leibovici, Kevin J Anderson, Dennis A Steindler, Michael D Weiss.
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Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in neonates results in long-term disabilities. Stem cell therapy may offer an attractive treatment for HIE. Multipotent astrocytic stem cells (MASCs) from mice transplanted into a rat model of hypoxia-ischemia (HI) survived the transplantation and showed signs of migration towards the injured cortex. Some MASCs around the injured cortex differentiated into neuronal and astrocytic phenotypes. MASCs transplanted into non-ischemic pups survived but retained their astrocytic phenotype. These data suggest that transplanted MASCs can survive and differentiate into neurons and astrocytes in the post-injury milieu of the neonatal brain injured by HI.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16919606 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.014
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Res ISSN: 0006-8993 Impact factor: 3.252