The promise of human ebryonic stem cells

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 843-852

  Gerecht Nir, Sharon ^a   Itskovitz Eldor, Joseph ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Embryoid bodies; Human embryonic stem cells; Self renewal

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CALPONIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROGESTERONE; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 3; TUMOR REJECTION ANTIGEN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TROPHOBLAST; ANGIOGENESIS; CELL SEPARATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO RESEARCH; FORECASTING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; EMBRYO RESEARCH; FORECASTING; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 10944241133     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2004.07.004     Document Type: Review

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