Gene therapy: Can neural stem cells deliver?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-84

  Müller, Franz Josef ^a,b   Snyder, Evan Y ^a   Loring, Jeanne F ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Zentrum fur Integrative Psychiatrie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; DOPAMINE; ENZYME; FLUCYTOSINE; GALANIN; GELATINASE A; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GROWTH FACTOR; HERPESVIRUS VECTOR; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; LEVODOPA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROGENEIN 2; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PRODRUG; SEROTONIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC PAIN; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

HERPESVIRIDAE; LENTIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 29244492003     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1829     Document Type: Review

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