CD133

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 4; no. 5; p. e5498
• Main Authors: Sun, Yirui, Kong, Weiqing, Falk, Anna, Hu, Jin, Zhou, Liangfu, Pollard, Steve, Smith, Austin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 11.05.2009
• Subjects: B cells; Brain tumors; Neurophysiology; RNA; Stem cells

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. In this study, we demonstrate that CD133 and a...