[HTML][HTML] Delivery of autologous bone marrow precursor cells into the spinal cord via lumbar puncture technique in patients with spinal cord injury: a preliminary safety …

F Callera, RX Do Nascimento - Experimental hematology, 2006 - exphem.org
Hematopoietic stem cells are adult precursor cells found mainly in the bone marrow and
they provide the blood cells required for daily blood turnover and for fighting infections.
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been used for decades to treat blood cancers
and other blood disorders. More recently, hematopoietic stem cell therapy has been shown
to have considerable therapeutic potential for spinal cord injury (SCI); however, in most
animal studies, stem cells have been directly injected into pathological central nervous …