Scientific Reviews:

1. Krishnan et al (2006) Demyelinating Disorders: Update on Transverse Myelitis, Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 6: 236-243.

2. Frederick & Miller (2006) Future of multiple sclerosis therapy: combining antigen-specific immunotherapy with strategies to promote myelin repair, Future Neurology, 1(4): 489-503.

3. Magnus and Rao (2005) Neural stem cells in inflammatory CNS diseases: mechanisms and therapy, J. Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 9(2): 303-319.

4. Goldman (2005) Stem and progenitor cell-based therapy of the human central nervous system, Nature Biotechnology, 23(7): 862-871.

5. Krishnan et al (2004) Transverse myelitis: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, Frontiers in BioScience, 9: 1483-1499.

Original Scientific Findings Relating to Q-Cells®

1. Lepore et al (2008) Focal tranplantation-based astrocyte replacement is neuroprotective in a model of motor neuron disease, Nature Neuroscience, 11 (11): 1294-1301

2. Windrem et al (2008) Neonatal chimerization with human glial progenitor cells can both remylinate and rescue the otherwise lethally hypomyelinated shiverer mouse, Cell Stem Cell, 2; 553-565

3. Lepore et al (2006) Long-term fate of neural precursor cells following transplantation into developing and adult CNS, Neuroscience, 139: 516-530.

4. Kaplin et al (2005) IL-6 induces regionally selective spinal cord injury in patients with the neuroinflammatory disorder transverse myelitis, J. Clinical Investigation, 115 (10): 2731-2741.

5. Lepore et al (2005) Neural precursor cells can be delivered into the injured cervical spinal cord by intrathecal injection at the lumbar cord, Brain Research, 1045: 206 - 216.

6. Mitsui et al (2005) Transplantation of neuronal and glial restricted precursors into contused spinal cord improves bladder and motor functions, decreases thermal hypersensitivity , and modifies intraspinal circuitry, J. Neuroscience, 25(42): 9624-9636.

7. Totoiu et al (2004) Remyelination, axonal sparing, and locomotor recovery following transplantation of glial-committed progenitor cells into the MHV model of Multiple Sclerosis, Exp Neurol, 187: 254-265.

8. Windrem et al (2004) Fetal and adult human oligodendrocyte progenitor cell isolates myelinate the congenitally dysmyelinated brain, Nature Medicine, 10(1): 93 - 97.