Pitfalls and fallacies interfering with correct identification of embryonic stem cells implanted into the brain after experimental traumatic injury

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-70

  Molcanyi, Marek ^a   Bosche, Bert ^b   Kraitsy, Klaus ^c   Patz, Silke ^c   Zivcak, Jozef ^d   Riess, Peter ^e   Majdoub, Faycal El ^a   Hescheler, Jürgen ^a   Goldbrunner, Roland ^a   Schäfer, Ute ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

^e Heart Center Siegburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Cell transplantation; Embryonic stem cell; GFP; In vivo trafficking; Macrophage; Phagocytosis; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84875609196     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.02.012     Document Type: Review

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