Potential of embryonic and adult stem cells in vitro

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 384, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 1391-1409

  Czyz, Jaroslaw ^a,c   Wiese, Cornelia ^a   Rolletschek, Alexandra ^a   Blyszczuk, Przemyslaw ^a   Cross, Michael ^b   Wobus, Anna M ^a  

^a In Vitro Differentiation Group   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adult stem cells; Cell therapy; Differentiation; Embryonic stem cells; Human; Mouse; Self renewal

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO PROPAGATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURONS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0345547430     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2003.155     Document Type: Review

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