Characterizing the signaling pathways of nerve growth factor in neuronal stem cells.

• Main Author: Heese, Klaus.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Research Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology::Neurobiology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14220
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years it has been noted that the adult brain has the 'self-repair capacity' to replace lost neurons in several regions of the central neural system (CNS), such as the olfactory bulb, hippocampus, adult human subependymal zone and the cortex. Neural stem cells (NSCs) within these...