Development of definitive endoderm from embryonic stem cells in culture

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1651-1662

  Kubo, Atsushi ^a,d   Shinozaki, Katsunori ^a   Shannon, John M ^b   Kouskoff, Valerie ^a,e   Kennedy, Marion ^a   Woo, Savio ^a   Fehling, Hans Joerg ^c   Keller, Gordon ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^d NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endoderm; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GERM LAYER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY CAPSULE; LIVER CELL; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; FETAL PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; KIDNEY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, SCID; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 2342424743     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01044     Document Type: Article

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