NG2-expressing glial progenitor cells: An abundant and widespread population of cycling cells in the adult rat CNS

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 476-488

  Dawson, Mary R L ^b   Polito, Annabella ^b   Levine, Joel M ^a   Reynolds, Richard ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN NG2; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; FOREBRAIN; GLIA CELL; GRAY MATTER; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0142250835     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-7431(03)00210-0     Document Type: Article

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