Activating Endogenous Neural Precursor Cells Using Metformin Leads to Neural Repair and Functional Recovery in a Model of Childhood Brain Injury

Stem Cell Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 166-173

  Dadwal, Parvati ^a   Mahmud, Neemat ^a,b   Sinai, Laleh ^a   Azimi, Ashkan ^a   Fatt, Michael ^a,c   Wondisford, Fredric E ^d   Miller, Freda D ^a,c   Morshead, Cindi M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METFORMIN; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEWBORN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; METFORMIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84983113426     PISSN: 22136711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2015.06.011     Document Type: Article

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