Highly efficient generation of induced neurons from human fibroblasts that survive transplantation into the adult rat brain

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pereira, Maria ^a   Pfisterer, Ulrich ^a   Rylander, Daniella ^a   Torper, Olof ^a   Lau, Shong ^a   Lundblad, Martin ^a   Grealish, Shane ^a   Parmar, Malin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DOPAMINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MAP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MYT1L PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROCEDURES; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSGENE; TRANSPLANTATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMAD PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUBULIN; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84915734112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06330     Document Type: Article

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