Effects of engrafted neural stem cells in Alzheimer's disease rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 450, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-171

  Xuan, A G ^a   Luo, M ^a   Ji, W D ^a   Long, D H ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cholinergic neurons; Glial cells; Learning and memory; Neural stem cells

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NESTIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGRAFTMENT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; HIPPOCAMPUS; INDOLES; MALE; MEMORY; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 58149330092     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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