Plenary lectures

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-1491
• DOI: 10.1002/glia.20913

✦ Synopsis

This lecture will focus upon the field of mammalian neural stem cells and precursors from two perspectives. The first part of the lecture will focus on our work examining how the environment regulates the differentiation of embryonic neural precursors into neurons versus glia, and how this is perturbed in genetic syndromes that cause cognitive dysfunction. The second part of the lecture will focus upon our work characterizing neural crest-like adult precursor cells from skin (Skin-derived Precursors or SKPs) both with regard to their basic biology and their potential therapeutic use for treatment of the damaged or degenerating nervous system.