Table 1.

Receptor/ligand pairs implicated in NSC pathotropism

Receptor/ligand	Disease model	References
SCF/c-Kit	"Freeze" brain injury	Sun et al. (2004)
SCF/c-Kit	Huntington's disease	Bantubungi et al. (2008)
MCP-1/CCR2	Inflammation	Widera et al. (2004)
MCP-1/CCR2	Tumor	Magge et al. (2009)
VEGF/VEGFR	Ischemia	Xu et al. (2007)
		Zhao et al. (2008)
		Schmidt et al. (2009)
HGF/c-Met	Tumor	Heese et al. (2005)
SDF-1/CXCR4	Demyelination	Carbajal et al. (2010)
SDF-1/CXCR4	Ischemia	Imitola et al. (2004)
SDF-1/CXCR4	Tumor	Zhou et al. (2002)
		Robin et al. (2006)