The production and directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-219

  Trounson, Alan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA;

BLASTOCYST; CANCER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINEAGE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GLIA CELL; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MESODERM; MORULA; MOTONEURON; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33645470634     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: 0163769X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.2005-0016     Document Type: Review

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