Efficient generation of midbrain and hindbrain neurons from mouse embryonic stem cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 675-679

  Lee, Sang Hun ^a   Lumelsky, Nadya ^a   Studer, Lorenz ^a,b   Auerbach, Jonathan M ^a   McKay, Ron D ^a  

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

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL LINE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYCLIC AMP; DOPAMINE; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEROTONIN; STEM CELLS; TETRODOTOXIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034044317     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76536     Document Type: Article

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