Mammalian hepatocyte differentiation requires the transcription factor HNF-4α

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 464-474

  Li, Jixuan ^a   Ning, Gang ^a   Duncan, Stephen A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Hepatocyte; Hepatogenesis; HNF 4; Liver development; Tetraploid

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; ENDODERM; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER CELL; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETRAPLOIDY;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; LIVER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034090310     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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