Comment on "Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain".

Authors :: Jansen JF
Gearhart JD
Bulte JW
Source :: Science (New York, N.Y.) [Science] 2008 Aug 01; Vol. 321 (5889), pp. 640.
Publication Year :: 2008
Abstract: Manganas et al. (Reports, 9 November 2007, p. 980) reported the discovery of a biomarker specific for neural progenitor cells detectable using magnetic resonance spectroscopy. A new algorithm was developed to extract the biomarker from noisy in vivo data. We question how this algorithm was validated, because the biomarker overlaps with peaks from nonspecific lipid signals.

Subjects :: Algorithms
Animals
Embryonic Stem Cells chemistry
Embryonic Stem Cells cytology
Humans
Mice
Neurons chemistry
Stem Cells chemistry
Biomarkers analysis
Brain cytology
Lipids analysis
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy methods
Neurons cytology
Stem Cells cytology

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