Fibroblast growth factor-20 promotes the differentiation of Nurr1-overexpressing neural stem cells into tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons

Stem cells are currently considered as alternative cell resources for restorative transplantation strategies in Parkinson's disease. However, the mechanisms that induce differentiation of a stem cell toward the dopaminergic phenotype are still partly unknown thus hampering the production of dop...

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Main Authors: C. Grothe, M. Timmer, T. Scholz, C. Winkler, G. Nikkhah, P. Claus, N. Itoh, E. Arenas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2004-11-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996104001615