Mesenchymal stem cells and glioma cells form a structural as well as a functional syncytium in vitro

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 208-219

  Schichor, Christian ^a   Albrecht, Valerie ^a   Korte, Benjamin ^a   Buchner, Alexander ^b   Riesenberg, Rainer ^b   Mysliwietz, Josef ^c   Paron, Igor ^a   Motaln, Helena ^d   Turnšek, Tamara Lah ^d   Jürchott, Kathrin ^e   Selbig, Joachim ^e   Tonn, Joerg Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c National Research Center for Environment and Health   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fusion; Gap junction; Glioma; Mesenchymal stem cell; Syncytium

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL SYNCYTIUM; GLIOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURAL SYNCYTIUM; SYNCYTIUM;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONNEXIN 43; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DEXTRANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GIANT CELLS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; RHODAMINES; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 84857500944     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.12.033     Document Type: Article

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