Migration and differentiation of neural precursors derived from human embryonic stem cells in the rat brain

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 601-606

  Tabar, Viviane ^a   Panagiotakos, Georgia ^a   Greenberg, Edward D ^a   Chan, Bill K ^a   Sadelain, Michel ^a   Gutin, Philip H ^a   Studer, Lorenz ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRAIN; MEDICINE; NEUROLOGY;

HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM (HES) CELLS; NEUROGENESIS;

CELLS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 22444449591     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1088     Document Type: Article

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