Leukemia inhibitory factor favours neurogenic differentiation of long-term propagated human midbrain precursor cells

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 464, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-208

  Andersen, Rikke K ^a   Widmer, Hans R ^b   Zimmer, Jens ^a   Wahlberg, Lars U ^c   Meyer, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c NsGene AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

EGF; FGF2; Neural development; Neural progenitor cells; Neural stem cells; Neural tissue spheres

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HEPARIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURAL STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HEPARIN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70149120699     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.08.050     Document Type: Article

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