Neurodevelopmental abnormalities in neurosphere-derived neural stem cells from SMN-depleted mice

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 86, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2839-2847

  Shafey, Dina ^a,b   MacKenzie, Alex E ^b,c   Kothary, Rashmi ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axon outgrowth and branching; Neurodegeneration; Neurospheres; Spinal muscular atrophy; Survival motor neuron

Indexed keywords

SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; STEM CELLS; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN;

EID: 57049106233     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21743     Document Type: Article

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