Gene transfer to the mammalian brain using neural stem cells: A focus on trophic factors, neuroregeneration, and cholinergic neuron systems

Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 301-309

  Martinez Serrano, Alberto ^a   Björklund, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ageing; Alzheimer's disease; dementia; gene therapy; neurotrophic factors

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; GENE TRANSFER; MAMMAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0029548602     PISSN: 10656766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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