Folic Acid Acts Through DNA Methyltransferases to Induce the Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells into Neurons

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 559-566

  Luo, Suhui ^a   Zhang, Xumei ^a   Yu, Min ^a   Yan, Hai ^a   Liu, Huan ^a   Wilson, John X ^b   Huang, Guowei ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; DNA methyltransferases; Folic acid; Neural stem cells

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84880945991     PISSN: 10859195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12013-012-9503-6     Document Type: Article

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