The biological restoration of central nervous system architecture and function: Part 1-Foundations and historical landmarks in contemporary stem cell biology

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-34

  Farin, Azadeh ^a,f   Liu, Charles Y ^a,b   Elder, James B ^a   Langmoen, Iver A ^c,d,e   Apuzzo, Michael L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular neurosurgery; Cloning; Embryo; Molecular neurosurgery; Neurogenesis; Plasticity; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

AMNION CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBRYO CELL; FIBROBLAST; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; NEUROGENESIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 62449236814     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000337580.02706.DC     Document Type: Review

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