Assessment of the malignant potential of mitogen stimulated human Schwann cells

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 107-116

  Emery, Evelyne ^a   Li, Xiuming ^a   Brunschwig, J P ^a   Olson, Leslie ^a   Levi, Allan D O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell line; Neoplasm; Schwann cell; SCID mice; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

FORSKOLIN; MITOGENIC AGENT; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DEMYELINATION; FIBROBLAST; GLIOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SCID MOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MITOGENS; MITOTIC INDEX; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; RATS; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032780663     PISSN: 10859489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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