title: [Effects of tanycytes transplantation on the motor function score and rubrospinal motor evoked potentials of adult rats after spinal cord completely transected].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether tanycytes be able to support the regeneration of completely transected spinal cord in adult rats.
  
  
  METHODS
  Subcultured tanycytes was transplanted into completely T8 transected spinal cord using the untranslated completely transected rats as control. After transplantation the rubrospinal motor evoked potentials were recorded below the injury level at the end of 12th week, assistant by Basso-Beatie-Bresnahan locomotor rating scale and histology method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  At the end of 12th week the total peak amplitude of rubrospinal motor evoked potentials (MD = 133.2 microV, P < 0.01) and BBB locomotor rating scale (MD = 5.0000, P < 0.01) were both significantly improved in cell transplanted group compared with that in the untranslated control group, while the latency of the first peak was shortened (MD = 0.061 ms, P = 0.040). HE staining showed more integrity in transected spinal cords in cells transplanted groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Transplanted tanycytes can support the regeneration of transected spinal cords in rats.
authors.affiliation: Medical Experiment and Test Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Xue
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xue-Mei
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Fen
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Li-Min
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Mao-Xian
authors.initials: MX
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiu-Lai
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017690:Cell Transplantation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor; D008297:Male; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000166:cytology / Q000637:transplantation*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D020127:Recovery of Function; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*