Nuclear transplantation: Lessons from frogs and mice

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 741-748

  Hochedlinger, Konrad ^a   Jaenisch, Rudolf ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

BLASTOCYST; CELL CLONE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DEVELOPMENT; FROG; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CLONING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0036897880     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00380-0     Document Type: Review

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