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Impaired spinal cord remyelination by long-term cultured adult porcine olfactory ensheathing cells correlates with altered in vitro phenotypic properties.
Xenotransplantation - 1 Jan 2000
Radtke Christine, Lankford Karen L, Wewetzer Konstantin, Imaizumi Toshio, Fodor William L, Kocsis Jeffery D
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BACKGROUND: Extensive studies in rodents have identified olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) as promising candidates for cell-based therapies of spinal cord and peripheral nerve injury. Previously, we demonstrated that short-term cultured adult porcine OECs can remyelinate the rodent and non-human...
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