Neural stem and progenitor cells: A strategy for gene therapy and brain repair

Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 858-868

  Pincus, David W ^a   Goodman, Robert R ^a   Fraser, Richard A R ^a   Nedergaard, Maiken ^a   Goldman, Steven A ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Neurogenesis; Stem cell; Subependyma; Transplantation; Ventricular zone

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CALCIUM; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; TETRODOTOXIN;

BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CELL AGING; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; FETUS CELL; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; EMBRYO; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0031978661     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199804000-00103     Document Type: Review

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