Chemical conversion of human fibroblasts into functional schwann cells

Stem Cell Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 539-547

  Thoma, Eva C ^a   Merkl, Claudia ^a,c   Heckel, Tobias ^a   Haab, Rachel ^a   Knoflach, Frederic ^a   Nowaczyk, Corinne ^a   Flint, Nicholas ^a   Jagasia, Ravi ^a   Jensen Zoffmann, Sannah ^a   Truong, Hoa Hue ^a   Petitjean, Pascal ^a   Jessberger, Sebastian ^b   Graf, Martin ^a   Iacone, Roberto ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE PROTEIN; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MYELINATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PHARMACOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; RATS; SCHWANN CELLS; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES;

EID: 84908029917     PISSN: 22136711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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