Therapeutic applications of embryonic stem cells

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 909-927

  Shufaro, Yoel ^a   Reubinoff, Benjamin E ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cell replacement therapy; Differentiation; Genetic modification; Human embryonic stem cells; Therapeutic cloning

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MUSCARINIC AGENT; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CLONING; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHIMERA; CHRONOTROPISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO CULTURE; FETUS CELL; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GERM CELL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMYELINIZATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SOMATIC CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL GENE THERAPY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TARGET ORGAN; TERATOMA; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONE CELLS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 10944238896     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2004.07.002     Document Type: Review

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