Quantitative evaluation of stem cell grafting in the central nervous system of mice by in vivo bioluminescence imaging and postmortem multicolor histological analysis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1052, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-141

  Reekmans, Kristien ^a   De Vocht, Nathalie ^a   Praet, Jelle ^a   Le Blon, Debbie ^a   Hoornaert, Chloé ^a   Daans, Jasmijn ^a   Van Der Linden, Annemie ^a   Berneman, Zwi ^a   Ponsaerts, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Bioluminescence imaging; Brain; Cell transplantation; eGFP; Histology; Luciferase; Mesenchymal stromal cells; Microglia; Neural stem cells

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MACROGLIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL- AND TISSUE-BASED THERAPY; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICE; MICROGLIA; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA;

EID: 84883251258     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7651-2013-17     Document Type: Article

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