Prospects for the clinical application of neural transplantation with the use of conditionally immortalized neuroepithelial stem cells

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1388, 1999, Pages 1407-1421

  Gray, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Hodges, Helen ^a,b   Sinden, John ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RENEURON LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Conditional immortalization; Hippocampus; Neural transplantation; Neuroepithelial stem cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033615096     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0488     Document Type: Article

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