Medial ganglionic eminence-derived neural stem cell grafts ease spontaneous seizures and restore GDNF expression in a rat model of chronic temporal lobe epilepsy

Stem Cells

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1153-1164

  Waldau, Ben ^a,b   Hattiangady, Bharathi ^a,b   Kuruba, Ramkumar ^a,b   Shetty, Ashok K ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic epilepsy; Glial derived neurotrophic factor; Hippocampal neurogenesis; Learning and memory; Medial ganglionic eminence; Neural stem cell therapy; Spontaneous seizures

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN S100B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEIZURES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

RATTUS;

EID: 77954824190     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.446     Document Type: Article

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