Essays please to be in my pigeonhole in the Anatomy and Genetics Department by 9am on the day of the tutorial.
Grays Anatomy
The Human Brain; an Introduction to Functional Anatomy, Nolte
Clinical Neuroanatomy, Snell
Principles of Neural Science, Kandel et al
Fundamental Neuroscience, Zigmund, Bloom et al
Human Molecular Genetics, Strachan and Read
Developmental Biology, Gilbert
The Extended Phenotype, Dawkins
Mindwaves, Editors Blakemore and Greenfield
The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch
How, when and where are neurons generated? What features distinguish the neuronal identity?
1. McKay R (1997) Stem cells in the central nervous system. Science, 276, 66-71 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/276/5309/66
2. Gage, F. H. (2000). Mammalian neural stem cells. Science 287, 1433-8 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/287/5457/1433
3. Identification of a neural stem cell in the adult mammalian central nervous system. (1999) Cell, 96, 25-34
4. Lee, S. H., Lumelsky, N., Studer, L., Auerbach, J. M., and McKay, R. D. (2000). Efficient generation of midbrain and hindbrain neurons from mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature Biotechnology 18, 675-9 http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nbt/journal/v18/n6/full/nbt0600_675.html
5. Hynes, M., and Rosenthal, A. (2000). Embryonic stem cells go dopaminergic. Neuron 28, 11-4.
6. Kim, JH et al. (2002) Dopamine neurons derived from embryonic stem cells function in an animal model of Parkinson's disease. Nature 418: 50-6 http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v418/n6893/full/nature00900_fs.html
Nature focus on stem cells: http://www.nature.com/reviews/focusarticles/stem_cell/
Science special on stem cells: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol287/issue5457/index.shtml
Nature focus on neural development: http://www.nature.com/nrn/focus/neurodev/
Nature Reviews in Neuroscience November 2001: http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nrn/journal/v2/n11/index.html
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