Clonal isolation of hESCs reveals heterogeneity within the pluripotent stem cell compartment

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 807-815

  Stewart, Morag J ^a,b,c   Bossé, Marc ^c   Chadwick, Kristin ^c   Menendez, Pablo ^a,b   Bendall, Sean C ^a,b,c   Bhatia, Mickie ^a,b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETAL ANTIGEN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONE CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33748992563     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth939     Document Type: Article

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