Oct-4: Lessons of totipotency from embryonic stem cells

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 165, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 144-152

  Pesce, Maurizio ^a   Anastassiadis, Konstantinos ^a   Schöler, Hans R ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cell; Germ cell; Oct 4; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032731129     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016694     Document Type: Article

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