Elsevier

Experimental Cell Research

Volume 253, Issue 2, 15 December 1999, Pages 733-736
Experimental Cell Research

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Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Human Brain

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Abstract

New neurons are continuously generated in certain regions of the adult brain. Studies in rodents have shown that new neurons are generated from self-renewing multipotent neural stem cells. Here we demonstrate that both the lateral ventricle wall and the hippocampus of the adult human brain harbor self-renewing cells capable of generating neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes in vitro, i.e., bona fide neural stem cells.

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