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Courtney M Dumont1, Mary K Munsell1, Mitchell A Carlson1, Brian J Cummings2,3,4,5, Aileen J Anderson2,3,4,5, Lonnie D Shea1,6.
Abstract
IMPACT STATEMENT: Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in loss of tissue innervation below the injury. Spinal progenitors have a greater ability to repair the damage and can be injected into the injury, but their regenerative potential is hampered by their poor survival after transplantation. Biomaterials can create a cell delivery platform and generate a more hospitable microenvironment for the progenitors within the injury. In this work, polymeric bridges are used to deliver embryonic spinal progenitors to the injury, resulting in increased progenitor survival and subsequent regeneration and functional recovery, thus demonstrating the importance of combined therapeutic approaches for SCI.Entities:
Keywords: axon elongation; biomaterial; spinal cord injury; spinal progenitor cells
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30215293 PMCID: PMC6238608 DOI: 10.1089/ten.TEA.2018.0053
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tissue Eng Part A ISSN: 1937-3341 Impact factor: 3.845