Functional and phenotypic differences of pure populations of stem cell-derived astrocytes and neuronal precursor cells

GLIA

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 695-715

  Kleiderman, Susanne ^a   Sá, João V ^b,c   Teixeira, Ana P ^b,c   Brito, Catarina ^b,c   Gutbier, Simon ^a   Evje, Lars G ^d   Hadera, Mussie G ^e   Glaab, Enrico ^f   Henry, Margit ^g   Sachinidis, Agapios ^g   Alves, Paula M ^b,c   Sonnewald, Ursula ^h,i   Leist, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL E TECNOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Differentiation; Metabolic flux; Neural stem cells; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBROMODULIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEFT RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTOR; LEFT RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTOR 2; NESTIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN S100B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; BMP4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CYTOKINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ASTROCYTIC PROTEIN, MOUSE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTE CULTURE; BRAIN REGION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENETICS; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; ASTROCYTES; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LACTIC ACID; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NESTIN; NEURAL STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84952683446     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.22954     Document Type: Article

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