What is a good differentiation protocol for glioblastoma stem cells to differentiation?

Givon Sanati @Givon-Sanati

26 January 2016 1 5K Report

I am generating u87 Gliblastoma stem cells and I want to see their differentiation ability.

Saleh Alkarim

Hello

Look at attachment & links here

Hope help you

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23356982

http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v21/n7/full/cdd201431a.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23047160

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