The effect of neurodegenerative diseases on the subventricular zone

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 712-723

  Curtis, Maurice A ^a   Faull, Richard L M ^b   Eriksson, Peter S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; HERPESVIRUS VECTOR; RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; GENE TRANSFER; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS;

EID: 34548040659     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2216     Document Type: Review

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