CD133 (Prominin) negative human neural stem cells are clonogenic and tripotent.

BACKGROUND:CD133 (Prominin) is widely used as a marker for the identification and isolation of neural precursor cells from normal brain or tumor tissue. However, the assumption that CD133 is expressed constitutively in neural precursor cells has not been examined. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:In t...

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Main Authors: Yirui Sun, Weiqing Kong, Anna Falk, Jin Hu, Liangfu Zhou, Steve Pollard, Austin Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2676510?pdf=render