Converted neural cells: Induced to a cure?

Protein and Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 91-97

  Zhang, Weiqi ^a   Duan, Shunlei ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Xu, Xiuling ^a   Qu, Jing ^a   Zhang, Weizhou ^b   Liu, Guang Hui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

converted neural cell; neurodegenerative diseases; pluripotent stem cell; transdifferentiation; transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONVERTED NEURAL CELL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STROKE;

EID: 84862868279     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-012-2029-2     Document Type: Review

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