Formation of pluripotent stem cells in the mammalian embryo depends on the POU transcription factor Oct4

Cell

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 379-391

  Nichols, Jennifer ^a   Zevnik, Branko ^a,c   Anastassiadis, Konstantinos ^b   Niwa, Hitoshi ^a,d   Klewe Nebenius, Daniela ^a   Chambers, Ian ^a   Schöler, Hans ^b   Smith, Austin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GERM CELL; INNER CELL MASS; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0032582513     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81769-9     Document Type: Article

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