Thinking out of the dish: What to learn about cortical development using pluripotent stem cells

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 334-342

  Van den Ameele, Jelle ^a,b   Tiberi, Luca ^a   Vanderhaeghen, Pierre ^a,c,d,e   Espuny Camacho, Ira ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c WELBIO   (Belgium)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EVOLUTION; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EMBRYOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84901610587     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.03.005     Document Type: Review

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