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Derivation of neural stem cells from an animal model of psychiatric disease.
Translational psychiatry - 5 Nov 2013
de Koning A, Walton N M, Shin R, Chen Q, Miyake S, Tajinda K, Gross A K, Kogan J H, Heusner C L, Tamura K, Matsumoto M
Abstract excerpt
Several psychiatric and neurological diseases are associated with altered hippocampal neurogenesis, suggesting differing neural stem cell (NSC) function may play a critical role in these diseases. To investigate the role of resident NSCs in a murine model of psychiatric disease, we sought to isolate and characterize NSCs from alpha-calcium-/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II heterozygous knockout (CaMK2α-hKO)...
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