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EGF and FGF-2 infusion increases post-ischemic neural progenitor cell proliferation in the adult rat brain.
Neurosurgery - 1 Dec 2005
Türeyen Kudret, Vemuganti Raghu, Bowen Kellie K, Sailor Kurt A, Dempsey Robert J
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OBJECTIVE: Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) play a critical role in neurogenesis. In the present study, we evaluated the additive effect of administering these two factors on post-ischemic progenitor cell proliferation, survival, and phenotypic maturation in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) and the subventricular zone (SVZ) in the adult rat brain after transient middle...
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