A rosette-type, self-renewing human ES cell-derived neural stem cell with potential for in vitro instruction and synaptic integration

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3225-3230

  Koch, Philipp ^a   Opitz, Thoralf ^a   Steinbeck, Julius A ^a   Ladewig, Julia ^a   Brüstle, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human embryonic stem cells; Neural differentiation; Regionalization; Synapse formation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL SEPARATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; HUMANS; NEURONS; STEM CELLS; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 62549127853     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808387106     Document Type: Article

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