Transdifferentiation - Fact or artifact

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-40

  Liu, Ying ^a,b   Rao, Mahendra S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competence; Dedifferentiation; Fate; Heterochromatin; Lateral inhibition; Methylation; Senescence; SiRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; DNA TRANSFER; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENESCENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037214304     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.10281     Document Type: Review

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