Stem and Progenitor Cell-Based Therapy of the Central Nervous System: Hopes, Hype, and Wishful Thinking

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 174-188

  Goldman, Steven A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

astrocyte; cell therapy; glial progenitor cell; myelin disease; neural stem cell; neurodegenerative disease; neurological therapeutics; oligodendrocyte progenitor cell

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EPILEPSY; EYE DISEASE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; MOUSE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PATHOLOGY; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84957873948     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: 18759777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.01.012     Document Type: Review

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