Human stem cells as a model of motoneuron development and diseases

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1198, Issue , 2010, Pages 192-200

  Liu, Yan ^a,b   Zhang, Su Chun ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); astrocytes; embryonic stem cells; induced pluripotent stem cells; spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG SCREENING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MITOSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; OLIG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SHH PROTEIN, HUMAN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ASTROCYTES; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; MITOSIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 77954565830     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05537.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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