Organization and histochemical phenotype of human fetal cerebellar cells following transplantation into the cerebellum of nude mice

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 479-489

  Pundt, L L ^a   Jorn E A ^a   Conrad, J A ^a   Low, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calbindin; Cerebellar ataxia; Fetal cell; Graft; Human neurofilament; Purkinje cell

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PHENOTYPE; PURKINJE CELLS;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030866436     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(97)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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