Fig. 23.1 Photomicrograph showing the distribution of PKH26-labeled transplanted MSC counterstained with DAPI staining for nuclei at 1 and 5 weeks after spinal cord injury. Transplanted PKH26-induced fluorescent MSCs survived…
Fig. 24.1 Recruitment of EPCs to injured spinal cord. (a–d) Bone marrow (BM)-derived EPCs were serially identified in the spinal cord of wild-type mice with SCI following BM transplantation from…
Fig. 17.1 Histological and behavioral evaluation after anti-interleukin (IL)-6 receptor (MR16-1) treatment. Luxol fast blue (LFB) stained axial sections at the injury epicenter (42 days post-injury) showed remarkable reduction in…
Fig. 30.1 Sequential positions of estimated current dipoles superimposed on an anterior–posterior X-ray image and a schematic representation (black lines) of the spine at the thoracic level. Thick green lines…
Fig. 16.1 Targeted retrograde gene delivery of recombinant adenovirus vector-mediated LacZ gene through the sternomastoid muscle innervated by spinal accessory nerves. (a) Lower magnification, (b–d) high-power photomicrograph of the box…
Fig. 22.1 Appearance of honeycomb collagen sponge (HC) and in vitro evaluation of dorsal root ganglions (DRGs) on HC. HC consists of serial tunnel structures resembling a honeycomb (A). HC…
Fig. 21.1 Diagram of the GFP, MNTS1, and MNTS1/p75− lentivirus vectors We monitored the locomotor functional recovery in all four groups: control, MSC, MSC-MNTS1, and MSC-MNTS1/p75−, respectively, using the BBB…
Fig. 20.1 (a) Temporal changes in the lower limb motor function in model mice with spinal cord injury. Significant improvement of lower limb motor function was observed by using the…
Fig. 9.1 Photomicrographs showing wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase-labeled spinal accessory motoneurons. (a) A motoneuron at C2–C3 segments in a representative control ICR mouse; (b) site A in the twy mouse,…
Fig. 11.1 The application of cyclic tensile strain induced apoptotic cell death in spinal cord cells. Representative serial photomicrographs are shown of cells exposed to a tensile strain of 10…
