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Identification and Characterization of Neural Progenitor Cells in the Adult Mammalian Brain

Identification and Characterization of Neural Progenitor Cells in the Adult Mammalian Brain

Gil-Perotín, Sara
Alvarez-Buylla, Arturo
Garcia-Verdugo, Jose Manuel

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Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, Book 203

Medical ReferenceBiologyCognition

ISBN10: 3540887180
ISBN13: 9783540887188
Publisher: Springer
Published: Apr 30 2009
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Adult neurogenesis has been questioned for many years. In the early 1900s, a dogma was established that denied new neuron formation in the adult brain. In the last century however, new discoveries have demonstrated the real existence of proliferation in the adult brain, and in the last decade, these studies led to the identification of neural stem cells in mammals. Adult neural stem cells are undifferentiated cells that are present in the adult brain and are capable of dividing and differentiating into glia and new neurons. Newly formed neurons terminally differentiate into mature neurons in the olfactory bulb and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. Since then, a number of new research lines have emerged whose common objective is the phenotypical and molecular characterization of brain stem cells. As a result, new therapies are successfully being applied to animal models for certain neurodegenerative diseases or stroke. At present, and in years to come, this finding extends to the adult human brain, and gives reason and hope to all the previous studies.

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