Specification of transplantable astroglial subtypes from human pluripotent stem cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 528-534

  Krencik, Robert ^a,b   Weick, Jason P ^b   Liu, Yan ^c   Zhang, Zhi Jian ^b   Zhang, Su Chun ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE PROCESS; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS; HOMEODOMAIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MORPHOGENS; MOUSE BRAIN; NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS; NEURONAL CELL; PHENOTYPIC DIFFERENCES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

BLOOD VESSELS; GENES; MAMMALS; SPECIFICATIONS; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

STEM CELLS;

GLUTAMIC ACID; MORPHOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROEPITHELIAL CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79958128131     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1877     Document Type: Article

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