NCAM1 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Astrocytic scar formation at the injury site was found to be higher in NCAM−/− compared with NCAM+/+ mice (Saini et al., 2016) and it was suggested that transduction of UCB-MCs with Ad-NCAM can contribute to their homing and survivability after intravenous transplantation into ALS mice.