Interneurons from embryonic development to cell-based therapy

Science

Volumn 344, Issue 6180, 2014, Pages

  Southwell, Derek G ^a   Nicholas, Cory R ^a,b   Basbaum, Allan I ^a   Stryker, Michael P ^b   Kriegstein, Arnold R ^a,b   Rubenstein, John L ^b   Alvarez Buylla, Arturo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; INHIBITION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; NEUROLOGY; RODENT;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL DEATH; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC PAIN; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPILEPSY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON TRANSPLANTATION; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TELENCEPHALON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CELL COUNT; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SEPARATION; CELL- AND TISSUE-BASED THERAPY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 84897975146     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1240622     Document Type: Review

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