Overcoming the hurdles for a reproducible generation of human functionally mature reprogrammed neurons

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 240, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 787-794

  Broccoli, Vania ^a   Rubio, Alicia ^a   Taverna, Stefano ^a   Yekhlef, Latefa ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

disease modeling; embryonic stem cells; induced pluripotent stem cells; neuronal activity; Neurons; synapses

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXY 1 METHYLTETRALIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 6 NITRO 7 SULFAMOYLBENZO [F] QUINOXALINE 2,3 DIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; DORSOMORPHIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FORSKOLIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 124; MICRORNA 9; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEUROGENIN 2; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; PROTEIN BCL 2; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU3F2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX11; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MATURATION; ECTOPIC TISSUE; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84930799776     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370215577585     Document Type: Article

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