Primary differentiation in the human blastocyst: Comparative molecular portraits of inner cell mass and trophectoderm cells

Stem Cells

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1514-1525

  Adjaye, James ^a   Huntriss, John ^b   Herwig, Ralf ^a   Benkahla, Alia ^a   Brink, Thore C ^a   Wierling, Christoph ^a   Hultschig, Claus ^a   Groth, Detlef ^a   Yaspo, Marie Laure ^a   Picton, Helen M ^b   Gosden, Roger G ^c   Lehrach, Hans ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; CDX2; Differentiation; Innercell mass; Microarrays; OCT4; Pluripotency Embryonic stem cells; Preimplantation development; Trophectoderm; Trophoblastic stem cells

Indexed keywords

INTEGRIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATPIB3 GENE; BLASTOCYST; CDX2 GENE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL METABOLISM; DNA MICROARRAY; DPPA5 GENE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HMGB1 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNER CELL MASS; IPL GENE; MORULA; NANOG GENE; OCT4 GENE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SFN GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHECTODERM CELL; TROPHOBLAST;

APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CLONE CELLS; ECTODERM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TROPHOBLASTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 28444495872     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2005-0113     Document Type: Article

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