Bone marrow cells adopt the phenotype of other cells by spontaneous cell fusion

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6880, 2002, Pages 542-545

  Terada, Naohiro ^a,b   Hamazaki, Takashi ^a   Oka, Masahiro ^a   Hoki, Masanori ^a   Mastalerz, Diana M ^a   Nakano, Yuka ^a   Meyer, Edwin M ^a   Morel, Laurence ^a   Petersen, Bryon E ^a,b   Scott, Edward W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; BONE; CELLS; GENES;

BONE MARROW CELLS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

MEDICINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMBRYO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-3; KARYOTYPING; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; PLOIDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037041427     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature730     Document Type: Article

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