Analysis of green fluorescent protein expression in transgenic rats for tracking transplanted neural stem/progenitor cells

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1215-1226

  Mothe, Andrea J ^a   Kulbatski, Iris ^a   Van Bendegem, Rita L ^a   Lee, Linda ^a   Kobayashi, Eiji ^b   Keating, Armand ^c   Tator, Charles H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

GFP; Immunohistochemistry; Spinal cord; Stem progenitor cells; Transgenic rat; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 24944543954     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.5A6639.2005     Document Type: Article

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