A germ cell origin of embryonic stem cell?

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-233

  Zwaka, Thomas P ^a   Thomson, James A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WiCell Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TERATOCARCINOMA; TISSUE CULTURE; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STEM CELLS;

EID: 13944262909     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01586     Document Type: Review

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