Brief report: Phenotypic rescue of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived motoneurons of a spinal muscular atrophy patient

Stem Cells

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2090-2093

  Chang, Tammy ^a   Zheng, Weiyan ^a,b   Tsark, Walter ^a   Bates, Steven ^a   Huang, He ^b   Lin, Ren Jang ^a   Yee, Jiing Kuan ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Induced pluripotent stem cells; Lentiviral vectors; Motoneurons; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURITES; PHENOTYPE; RETROVIRIDAE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN; TERATOMA;

EID: 81855206164     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.749     Document Type: Article

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