Male-Specific Differences in Proliferation, Neurogenesis, and Sensitivity to Oxidative Stress in Neural Progenitor Cells Derived from a Rat Model of ALS

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Li, Ruojia ^a   Strykowski, Rachel ^a   Meyer, Michael ^a   Mulcrone, Patrick ^a   Krakora, Dan ^a   Suzuki, Masatoshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SRY GENE; STEM CELL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE 1 GENE; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MUTANT PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSGENES;

RATTUS;

EID: 84869006768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048581     Document Type: Article

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