A ROCK inhibitor permits survival of dissociated human embryonic stem cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 681-686

  Watanabe, Kiichi ^a,d   Ueno, Morio ^a,b   Kamiya, Daisuke ^a   Nishiyama, Ayaka ^a   Matsumura, Michiru ^a   Wataya, Takafumi ^a,c   Takahashi, Jun B ^c   Nishikawa, Satomi ^a   Nishikawa, Shin Ichi ^a   Muguruma, Keiko ^a   Sasai, Yoshiki ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CLONING; DISSOCIATION;

BASAL TELENCEPHALIC PROGENITORS; CLONING EFFICIENCY; DISSOCIATION INDUCED APOPTOSIS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS;

CELLS;

1 (5 IODO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONYL)HEXAHYDRO 1H 1,4 DIAZEPINE; 2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; 2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; 4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; BISINDOLYLMALEIMIDE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; FASUDIL; KT 5720; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE C INHIBITOR; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR; STAUROSPORINE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; COLONY FORMATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELENCEPHALON;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES;

EID: 34250206996     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1310     Document Type: Article

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