Sox-2 is expressed by glial and progenitor cells and Pax-6 is expressed by neuroblasts in the human subventricular zone

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 828-831

  Baer, Kristin ^a   Eriksson, Peter S ^b   Faull, Richard L M ^c   Rees, Mark I ^a   Curtis, Maurice A ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bromodeoxyuridine; Human brain; Neurogenesis; Progenitor cell; Subventricular zone; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROBLAST; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STEM CELL; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE;

BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; EYE PROTEINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HMGB PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE L1; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIALIC ACIDS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 34047185478     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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