A new method for the rapid and long term growth of human neural precursor cells

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-152

  Svendsen, Clive N ^a   Ter Borg, Melanie G ^a   Armstrong, Richard J E ^a   Rosser, Anne E ^a   Chandran, S ^a   Ostenfeld, Thor ^a   Caldwell, Maeve A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Expansion; Human; Progenitor cell; Proliferation; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

AUTOMATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FETUS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE; NEUROSCIENCES; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032409396     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(98)00126-5     Document Type: Article

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