Systemic treatment with a novel basic fibroblast growth factor mimic small-molecule compound boosts functional recovery after spinal cord injury

• Shiro Imagama ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shiro Imagama, Ryoko Ogino

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: imagama@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp (SI); ueno.shinya.br@daiichisankyo.co.jp (SU)

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-8575

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• Ryoko Ogino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shiro Imagama, Ryoko Ogino

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Shinya Ueno ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: imagama@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp (SI); ueno.shinya.br@daiichisankyo.co.jp (SU)

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Norihito Murayama,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Naohiro Takemoto,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Yoshiari Shimmyo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Taisuke Kadoshima,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Shigeki Tamura,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Mariko Kuroda,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Yukihiro Matsuyama,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

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• Kenji Kadomatsu,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Morita,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy, Laboratory of Physiology and Morphology, Yasuda Women’s University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Teruyoshi Inoue,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan

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• Naoki Ishiguro

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

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