The controlled generation of functional basal forebrain cholinergic neurons from human embryonic stem cells

Stem Cells

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 802-811

  Bissonnette, Christopher J ^a   Lyass, Ljuba ^a   Bhattacharyya, Bula J ^a   Belmadani, Abdelhak ^a   Miller, Richard J ^a   Kessler, John A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cell differentiation; Cholinergic fibers; Embryonic stem cell; Growth differentiation factor 2; Neural stem cell

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 9; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; LIGAND; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASAL FOREBRAIN CHOLINERGIC NEURON; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENGRAFTMENT; GBX1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; LHX8 GENE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 2; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELLS; TRETINOIN;

MURINAE;

EID: 79955411486     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.626     Document Type: Article

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