Telomerase immortalization of neuronally restricted progenitor cells derived from the human fetal spinal cord

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 297-305

  Roy, Neeta S ^a   Nakano, Takahiro ^a   Keyoung, H Michael ^a   Windrem, Martha ^a,d   Rashbaum, William K ^a   Alonso, M Lita ^a   Kang, Jian ^b   Peng, Weiguo ^b   Carpenter, Melissa K ^c   Lin, Jane ^b   Nedergaard, Maiken ^b,d   Goldman, Steven A ^a,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c GERON CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENZYMES; NEUROLOGY; TUMORS;

FIBROBLASTS; SPINAL CORD;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRAIN SC11V TERT; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HB9 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN FETAL SPINAL CORD; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; KARYOTYPE; MITOSIS; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL; XENOGRAFT;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RETROVIRIDAE PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TELOMERASE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 10744233012     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt944     Document Type: Article

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