Is this a brain which i see before me? Modeling human neural development with pluripotent stem cells

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 142, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 3138-3150

  Suzuki, Ikuo K ^a   Vanderhaeghen, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Human brain evolution; Neural development; Neurogenesis; Patterning; Pluripotent stem cell

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEURITE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURITES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RETINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84942118095     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.120568     Document Type: Review

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