Photomechanical Wave-Driven Delivery of siRNAs Targeting Intermediate Filament Proteins Promotes Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury in Rats

Site-specific gene transfer into the rat spinal cord by photomechanical waves

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Targeted gene transfer into rat facial muscles by nanosecond pulsed laser-induced stress waves

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Glial scar and neuroregeneration: histological, functional, and magnetic resonance imaging analysis in chronic spinal cord injury

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Down-Regulation of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein and Vimentin by RNA Interference Improves Acute Urinary Dysfunction Associated with Spinal Cord Injury in Rats

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Optical fiber-based photomechanical gene transfer system for in vivo application

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Propagation Characteristics of Photomechanical Waves and Their Application to Gene Delivery into Deep Tissue

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Self-Organization of a Stable Pore Structure in a Phospholipid Bilayer

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Spatio-Temporal Progression of Grey and White Matter Damage Following Contusion Injury in Rat Spinal Cord

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Astrocytes: biology and pathology

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Propagation characteristics of laser-induced stress wave in deep tissue for gene transfer

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Accelerated adhesion of grafted skin by laser-induced stress wave–based gene transfer of hepatocyte growth factor

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Serial Changes in Bladder, Locomotion, and Levels of Neurotrophic Factors in Rats with Spinal Cord Contusion

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Functional recovery of stepping in rats after a complete neonatal spinal cord transection is not due to regrowth across the lesion site

(2009) N.J.K. Tillakaratne et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

A Novel and Efficient Gene Transfer Strategy Reduces Glial Reactivity and Improves Neuronal Survival and Axonal Growth In Vitro

(2009) Mathieu Desclaux et al.   PLoS One

Molecular dissection of reactive astrogliosis and glial scar formation

(2009) Michael V. Sofroniew   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Atelocollagen-mediated local and systemic applications of myostatin-targeting siRNA increase skeletal muscle mass

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Laser-Based Gene Transfection and Gene Therapy

(2008) Cui-Ping Yao et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOBIOSCIENCE

Spinal cord injury: Emerging beneficial role of reactive astrocytes’ migration

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White matter inhibitors in CNS axon regeneration failure

(2007) Fang Xie et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

CNS injury, glial scars, and inflammation: Inhibitory extracellular matrices and regeneration failure

(2007) Michael T. Fitch et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Intermediate filaments regulate astrocyte motility

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