Rewiring the ischaemic brain with human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3525-3527

  Pluchino, Stefano ^a,b   Peruzzotti Jametti, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84890755621     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt330     Document Type: Note

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