A preclinical assessment of neural stem cells as delivery vehicles for anti-amyloid therapeutics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Njie, EMalick G ^a,d   Kantorovich, Svetlana ^a   Astary, Garrett W ^b   Green, Cameron ^a   Zheng, Tong ^a   Semple Rowland, Susan L ^a   Steindler, Dennis A ^a   Sarntinoranont, Malisa ^c   Streit, Wolfgang J ^a   Borchelt, David R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; GELATINASE B; AMYLOID; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APP PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SENILE PLAQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; WHITE MATTER; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; LENTIVIRINAE; METABOLISM; MYELINATED NERVE; NEURAL STEM CELL; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION; TRANSPLANTATION;

MUS;

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LENTIVIRUS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PLAQUE, AMYLOID;

EID: 84859354788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034097     Document Type: Article

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