Patent ID: 8067161

Claim:
A kit for detecting or selecting a dopaminergic neuron proliferative progenitor cell, comprising a polynucleotide probe or polynucleotide primer for use in the detection or selection of a dopaminergic neuron proliferative progenitor cell, which can hybridize with a polynucleotide consisting of a nucleotide sequence of a mammalian Nato3 gene, or a complementary sequence thereto, wherein the polynucleotide probe or polynucleotide primer consists of a polynucleotide comprising a sequence of at least 10 contiguous nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence of the Nato3 gene, or a complementary sequence thereto, which further comprises a probe, a primer, a primer set, or an antibody, which can detect the expression of a dopaminergic neuron proliferative progenitor cell marker gene other than the Nato3 gene.