How is pluripotency determined and maintained?

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 635-646

  Niwa, Hitoshi ^a,b  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN B MYB; PROTEIN C MYB; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN LIF; PROTEIN MYB; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLASTOCYST; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TARGETING; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33947308285     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02787     Document Type: Review

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