Long-term integration and neuronal differentiation of human embryonal carcinoma cells (NTera-2) transplanted into the caudoputamen of nude mice

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 376, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 603-613

  Miyazono, Masayuki ^a   Nowell, Peter C ^a   Finan, Janet L ^a   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

catecholaminergic phenotype; human neuronal progenitors; tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

BRAIN EXTRACT; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TAU PROTEIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SURVIVAL TIME; TERATOCARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PUTAMEN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030476702     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961223)376:4<603::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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