Restricted growth potential of rat neural precursors as compared to mouse

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 253-258

  Svendsen, Clive N ^a   Skepper, Jeremy ^b   Rosser, Anne E ^a   Ter Borg, Melanie G ^a   Tyres, Pam ^a   Ryken, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; epidermal growth factor; fibroblast growth factor; mouse; progenitor; proliferation; rat; stem cell

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG POTENTIATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0030948483     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(97)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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