Attempts to produce astrocyte cultures devoid of oligodendrocyte generating potential by the use of antimitotic treatment reveal the presence of quiescent oligodendrocyte precursors

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 64-71

  Crang, A John ^a   Blakemore, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Glial cell transplantation; Oligodendrocyte precursors; Remyelination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL SURVIVAL; GROWTH REGULATION; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REMYELINIZATION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; CYTARABINE; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; GROWTH INHIBITORS; MITOSIS; MYELIN SHEATH; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROSENCEPHALON; RABBITS; RATS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0030743809     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19970701)49:1<64::AID-JNR7>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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