Production of pancreatic hormone-expressing endocrine cells from human embryonic stem cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1392-1401

  D'Amour, Kevin A ^a   Bang, Anne G ^a   Eliazer, Susan ^a   Kelly, Olivia G ^a   Agulnick, Alan D ^a   Smart, Nora G ^a   Moorman, Mark A ^a   Kroon, Evert ^a   Carpenter, Melissa K ^a   Baetge, Emmanuel E ^a  

^a Georgia Biobusiness Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINOLOGY; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; POLYPEPTIDES;

CELL THERAPY; ENDOCRINE CELLS; PANCREATIC HORMONES; STEM CELLS;

HORMONES;

GHRELIN; GLUCAGON; PANCREAS HORMONE; POLYPEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOCRINE CELL; ENDODERM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GLUCONEOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENTEROENDOCRINE CELLS; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC HORMONES; PEPTIDE HORMONES;

EID: 33750846133     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1259     Document Type: Article

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