Adult human dental pulp stem cells differentiate toward functionally active neurons under appropriate environmental cues

Stem Cells

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1787-1795

  Arthur, Agnes ^a,b   Rychkov, Grigori ^a   Shi, Songtao ^c   Koblar, Simon Andrea ^a   Gronthose, Stan ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b HANSON INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dental pulp stem cells; Neuronal differentiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PREPUCE; SODIUM CURRENT; STEM CELL; TOOTH PULP; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; DENTAL PULP; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MOLAR; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS;

AVES;

EID: 55049116045     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0979     Document Type: Article

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