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Published in final edited form as: Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2009 Aug 7;169(2):171–182. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2009.07.016

Table 1.

Donor tissues or cells that have been used for CNS regeneration

Tissues	Peripheral nerve tissue
	Fetal spinal cord or brain tissue
Primary Neurons	Fetal brain or spinal cord neurons
	PNS neurons (e.g. sympathetic dopaminergic neurons)
Glial Cells	CNS: astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia
	PNS: Schwann cells, olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG)
Genetically Engineered	Derived from neurons and glial cells
Cells	Derived from non-neuronal cells (e.g. fibroblasts)
Stem Cells	Embryonic stem cells (ES)
	Neural stem cells (NSC)
	Glial-restricted precursors (GRP)/ Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPC)
Non-Neural Cells	Marrow stromal cells (MSC)
	Reactive macrophages
	Meningeal fibroblasts