Selection of embryonic stem cell-derived enhanced green fluorescent protein-positive dopamine neurons using the tyrosine hydroxylase promoter is confounded by reporter gene expression in immature cell populations

Stem Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1126-1135

  Hedlund, Eva ^a   Pruszak, Jan ^a   Ferree, Andrew ^a   Viñuela, Angel ^a   Hong, Sunghoi ^a   Isacson, Ole ^a   Kim, Kwang Soo ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CD 15; Fluorescence activated cell sorting; Genetic engineering; Parkinson disease; Stage specific embryonic antigen 1

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD15; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOPAMINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 34247590317     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0540     Document Type: Article

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