Comment on "Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain".
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Biomarkers
- Brain
- Lipids
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Neurons
- Stem Cells