Region-specific differentiation potential of adult rat spinal cord neural stem/precursors and their plasticity in response to in vitro manipulation

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 405-423

  Kulbatski, Iris ^a   Tator, Charles H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell matrix; Co culture; Differentiation; Growth factors; In vitro; Myelination; Neural precursors; Region specificity; Serum; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIME; ANIMAL; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CULTURE MEDIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66149146752     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.2008.951814     Document Type: Article

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