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From stem cell to neuron
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021111-02
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Human embryonic stem cells could provide a valuable source or replacement neurons to ameliorate the effects of neural disorders such as Parkinson's disease, but the majority of such cells do not differentiate into specific neuron subtypes when grafted into the adult central nervous system. In November 11 advanced online Nature Neuroscience, Ping Wu and colleagues at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA, show that a novel priming procedure for fetal human neural stem cells (hNSCs) can transform them into cholinergic neurons in adult rat CNS (Nature Neuroscience, DOI:10.1038/nn974, November 11, 2002).
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