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Developmental and Functional Nature of Human iPSC Derived Motoneurons

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The authors would like to thank Sabine Seltenheim for excellent technical support, the central electron microscopy unit of Ulm University for help with embedding and electron microscopy setups, Frank Edenhofer (Bonn, Germany) for providing recombinant Cre protein and Gustavo Mostoslavsky for providing the reprogramming vector construct. This study was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB497/B8 to TMB and DFG BO1718/4-1 to StL and TMB).

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  1. Institute for Anatomy & Cell Biology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany

    Marianne Stockmann, Leonhard Linta, Anja Boeckers, Georges F. Kuh, Patrick T. Udvardi, Christian Proepper, Stefan Liebau & Tobias M. Boeckers

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Karl J. Föhr

  3. Department of Neurology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Albert C. Ludolph

  4. Division of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Neurology and Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

    Alexander Storch

  5. DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Research Site Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Alexander Storch

  6. Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Alexander Kleger

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Stockmann, M., Linta, L., Föhr, K.J. et al. Developmental and Functional Nature of Human iPSC Derived Motoneurons. Stem Cell Rev and Rep 9, 475–492 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-011-9329-4

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