title: Cellular therapies for treating pain associated with spinal cord injury.
abstract: Spinal cord injury leads to immense disability and loss of quality of life in human with no satisfactory clinical cure. Cell-based or cell-related therapies have emerged as promising therapeutic potentials both in regeneration of spinal cord and mitigation of neuropathic pain due to spinal cord injury. This article reviews the various options and their latest developments with an update on their therapeutic potentials and clinical trialing.
authors.affiliation: Centre of Neurosciences Study, Queen's University, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. leungl@queensu.ca
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Leung
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D064987:Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy; D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*