title: The potential of neural transplantation for brain repair and regeneration following traumatic brain injury.
abstract: Traumatic brain injury is a major health problem worldwide. Currently, there is no effective treatment to improve neural structural repair and functional recovery of patients in the clinic. Cell transplantation is a potential strategy to repair and regenerate the injured brain. This review article summarized recent development in cell transplantation studies for post-traumatic brain injury brain repair with varying types of cell sources. It also discussed the potential of neural transplantation to repair/promote recovery of the injured brain following traumatic brain injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3837-7319
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sun
keywords: functional recovery; neural transplantation; regeneration; stem cells; traumatic brain injury