A comparison of cell transplantation and retroviral gene transfection as tools to study lineage and differentiation in the rat spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 243-249

  McMahon, Siobhan S ^a   McDermott, Kieran W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Immunoselection; In utero injection; Lineage; Radial glia; Retroviral vector; Spinal cord; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SELECTION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NEUROGLIA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETROVIRIDAE; SPINAL CORD; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33644760379     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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