Signaling mechanisms regulating self-renewal and differentiation of pluripotent embryonic stem cells

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 165, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 131-143

  Burdon, Tom ^a   Chambers, Ian ^b   Stracey, Craig ^b   Niwa, Hitoshi ^b   Smith, Austin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cells; Extracellular regulated kinase; gp130; Leukemia inhibitory factor; STAT3

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 130; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; PROTEIN KINASE; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032747233     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016693     Document Type: Article

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