Glial nature of adult neural stem cells: Neurogenic competence in adult astrocytes

Neural Development and Stem Cells: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 149-172

  Hwang, William W ^a   Alvarez Buylla, Arturo ^a   Lim, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3801-4_6     Document Type: Chapter

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