Human-derived neural progenitors functionally replace astrocytes in adult mice

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1033-1042

  Chen, Hong ^a,b   Qian, Kun ^b   Chen, Wei ^b   Hu, Baoyang ^b   Blackbourn, Lisle W ^b   Du, Zhongwei ^b   Ma, Lixiang ^b   Liu, Huisheng ^b   Knobel, Karla M ^b   Ayala, Melvin ^b   Zhang, Su Chun ^b,c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTEGRATION; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SPINAL CORD; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCID MOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICE, SCID; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEURAL STEM CELLS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84924043613     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI69097     Document Type: Article

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