Human neural stem cells can migrate, differentiate, and integrate after intravenous transplantation in adult rats with transient forebrain ischemia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-133

  Chu, Kon ^a   Kim, Manho ^a   Jeong, Sang Wuk ^a   Kim, Seung U ^b,c   Yoon, Byung Woo ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chimera; Differentiation; Global ischemia; Hippocampus; Human neural stem cell; Intravenous; Migration; Radial glia; Rat; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CLONING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 0037986476     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00174-5     Document Type: Article

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