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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

CNS neurons from neural stem cells

Neural stem cells derived from adult tissues retain the potential to differentiate into mature CNS neurons.

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020415-03

Published

15 April 2002

Neurons from the central nervous system (CNS) can regenerate, but little is known about the potential of adult neural stem cells to develop into functional nervous cells. In April 15 online Nature Neuroscience, Hong-jun Song and colleagues from the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, show that neural stem cells derived from adult tissues retain the potential to differentiate into cells with properties similar to that of mature CNS neurons.

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