Fetal brain progenitor cells transdifferentiate to fates outside the nervous system

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2645-2656

  Sang U, Hoi ^a,b   Alilain, Warren ^a   Saljooque, Farid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LAYER; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOMA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036841844     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2002-0094     Document Type: Article

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