The journal of trauma and acute care surgeryAnimalsSpinal Cord InjuriesRatsDisease ModelsAnimal
Targeting peptide homes to spinal cord injury in a rat model.
Jose A Castillo, Michael Nhien Le, Kuan-Wei Huang, Christopher Pivetti, Sina Vatoofy, Amanda Ratcliff, Taylor Tran, Solomon Bannerman, Maya Lee, Mehrad Shahin, Emma Loll, Kaitlin Clark, Elizabeth Reynolds, Andrei M T Dangan, Jay Uppuluri
Published: 202610.1097/TA.0000000000004819
Abstract
BACKGROUND: CAQK (cysteine-alanine-lysine glutamine) is a homing peptide shown to selectively target injured regions of the brain. This study evaluated CAQK in a rodent model of spinal cord injury (SCI) to determine its localization capacity, dose-re…
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