New cell lines from mouse epiblast share defining features with human embryonic stem cells

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7150, 2007, Pages 196-199

  Tesar, Paul J ^a,b   Chenoweth, Josh G ^a   Brook, Frances A ^b   Davies, Timothy J ^b   Evans, Edward P ^b   Mack, David L ^c   Gardner, Richard L ^b   McKay, Ronald D G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; MEDICINE; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

EID: 34447528757     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05972     Document Type: Article

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