Molecular Imaging in Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury
Figure 1
The T2-weighted MR images of the injured rat’s spinal cord before and after SPC-01 cell transplantation. The white arrows show labeled transplanted cells and lesion site. (a) The T2-weighted MR images of a spinal cord lesion 5 days after lesion induction before transplantation. (b) Spinal cord with a cell graft 8 weeks after cell transplantation. (c) Control spinal cord lesion 8 weeks after saline injection. (d) Two serial sections were stained with the human mitochondrial marker (MTCO2). (e) The same sections of D were stained with iron. (f) Overlay of MTC02 and iron staining [80].
