Lefty at the crossroads of "stemness" and differentiative events

Stem Cells

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1998-2006

  Tabibzadeh, Siamak ^a,c   Hemmati Brivanlou, Ali ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cells; Endometrial bleeding associated factor; Lefty; Review

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN CRIPTO; PROTEIN CRYPTIC; PROTEIN FRL 1; PROTEIN LEFTY; PROTEIN NODAL; RECEPTOR; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; DECIDUA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NIDATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROGENY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STEM CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 33749175620     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0075     Document Type: Short Survey

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