Identifying and Quantitating Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells in the Adult Brain

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 85, Issue , 2008, Pages 243-272

  Encinas, Juan Manuel ^a   Enikolopov, Grigori ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NESTIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 37249002363     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)85011-X     Document Type: Review

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