Prospective isolation of adult neural stem cells from the mouse subependymal zone

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1981-1989

  Fischer, Judith ^a   Beckervordersandforth, Ruth ^a   Tripathi, Pratibha ^a,c   Steiner Mezzadri, Andrea ^a   Ninkovic, Jovica ^a,b   Götz, Magdalena ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD133 ANTIGEN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT STEM CELL; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LABELING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GLIA CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STAINING; STEM CELL NICHE; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRODISSECTION; NEURAL STEM CELLS;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84861754082     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.412     Document Type: Review

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