Chimeric brains generated by intraventricular transplantation of fetal human brain cells into embryonic rats

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1040-1044

  Brüstle, Oliver ^a,b   Choudhary, Khalid ^a   Karram, Khalad ^a,b   Hüttner, Anita ^a   Murray, Kerren ^c   Dubois Dalcq, Monique ^c   McKay, Ronald D G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Cell therapy; Neural progenitor cell; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHIMERA; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031790755     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3481     Document Type: Article

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