Identifying endogenous neural stem cells in the adult brain in vitro and in vivo: Novel approaches

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 19, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 6499-6506

  Rueger, Maria Adele ^a   Androutsellis Theotokis, Andreas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Endogenous; Imaging; Neural stem cells; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CD133 ANTIGEN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FERRITIN; FLUORO THYMIDINE F 18; IRON OXIDE; NESTIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; THYMIDINE; TRACER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENDOGENOUS NEURAL STEM CELL; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYBRIDOMA; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROBLAST; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY BULB; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; STEM CELL CULTURE; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; TISSUE REPAIR;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS;

EID: 84887891473     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1381612811319360010     Document Type: Article

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