gholamreza kaka - Aghdasie, Artesh Boulevard,Artesh Square., 19568-37173, Tehran-IRAN- Neuroscience Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences

Demyelination is a common lesion of spinal cord injury; cell therapy is an approach for replacing the lost oligodendrocytes. Objective: In this study, bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) have been transdifferentiated into oligodendrocyte-like cells (OLCs) and used in cytotherapy of contused spinal cords in rats.

spinal contusion model, bone marrow, stromal cells, oligodendrocyteslike cells