The present invention relates to mono clonal antibodies or fragments
thereof for isolating and/or identifying neural progenitor cells. The
antibodies or fragments thereof bind to an identical antigen as an
antibody which is produced by the hybridoma cell lines W4A5, W8C3 and
57D2 deposited on Aug. 14, 2002, at the Deutsche Sammlung von
Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (DSMZ) under the numbers DSM ACC2571,
DSM ACC2570 and DSM ACC2568.