Overview
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Tanja Zigova
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Center for Aging and Brain Repair, Departments of Neurosurgery, Anatomy and Pharmacology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA
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Evan Y. Snyder
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Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Institutes of Medicine & Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital-Boston, Boston, USA
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Paul R. Sanberg
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Center for Aging and Brain Repair, Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Back Matter
Pages 431-434
About this book
Active neuroscientists survey NSCs as potential tools for central nervous system and spinal cord repair by explaining their clinically significant fundamental properties, manipulations, and potential therapeutic paradigms. Their discussion of the fundamental biology of NSCs illustrates the signaling pathways that regulate stem cell division and differentiation, and defines the methods of NSC expansion and propagation, neuromorphogenesis, the factors determining cell fate both in vitro and in situ, and the induction of self-reparative processes within the brain. They also present strategies that may lead to fruitful clinical applications in the near future. These range from the replacement of degenerated, dysfunctional, or maldeveloped cells to the provision of factors that may protect, correct, recruit, promote self-repair, or mediate the connectivity of host cells.
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"The purpose is to address research protocols and possible future applications of neural stem cells in clinical practice. The author has met the objectives. . .Starting from the basic aspects of cell culturing, this book emphasizes the different available research protocols that are currently being used for possible management of neurological degenerative diseases. In addition, molecular mechanisms of interaction are always explained whenever necessary. This book is a perfect purchase for neurologists and neuroscientists. Neurosurgeons with a basic science interest would also find this a useful acquisition."-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Aging and Brain Repair, Departments of Neurosurgery, Anatomy and Pharmacology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA
Tanja Zigova
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Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Institutes of Medicine & Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital-Boston, Boston, USA
Evan Y. Snyder
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Center for Aging and Brain Repair, Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA
Paul R. Sanberg
