Human mesenchymal stem cells express neural genes, suggesting a neural predisposition

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-164

  Blondheim, Netta R ^a   Levy, Yossef S ^a   Ben Zur, Tali ^a   Burshtein, Alex ^a   Cherlow, Tirza ^a   Kan, Inna ^a   Barzilai, Ran ^a   Bahat Stromza, Merav ^a   Barhum, Yael ^a   Bulvik, Shlomo ^b   Melamed, Eldad ^a   Offen, Daniel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LANIADO HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

2',3'-CYCLIC-NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33646566806     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2006.15.141     Document Type: Article

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