Feeder Layer- and Serum-Free Culture of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 837-845

  Amit, M ^b   Shariki, C ^b   Margulets, V ^b   Itskovitz Eldor, Joseph ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cytokines; Developmental biology; Early development; Embryo; Growth factors

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRONECTIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EMBRYO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; FETUS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, SCID; PROTEINS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TERATOMA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1242276404     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.021147     Document Type: Article

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