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Fibroblast growth factor-20 promotes the differentiation of Nurr1-overexpressing neural stem cells into tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons.
Neurobiology of disease - 1 Nov 2004
Grothe C, Timmer M, Scholz T, Winkler C, Nikkhah G, Claus P, Itoh N, Arenas E
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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 dopaminergic neurons from stem cells. In the past, FGF-20 has been found to promote the survival of ventral mesencephalic...
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