Increased Understanding of Stem Cell Behavior in Neurodegenerative and Neuromuscular Disorders by Use of Noninvasive Cell Imaging

Figure 7

Examples of sagittal resonance images of the spinal cord at the site of the injury, T4-T5 level (white circle) obtained from patient 5 before (a) and 20 and 35 days after labeled-CD34⁺ cells transplantation ((b) and (c), resp.). The suggested CD34 cell migration into the injured site is demonstrated as hypointense areas (black areas) in (b) and (c) (arrows). These hypointense areas are not seen in (a) (arrows) [117].

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