Concise review: Stem cell antigen-1: Expression, function, and enigma

Stem Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1339-1347

  Holmes, Christina ^a   Stanford, William L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glycosyl phosphatidylinositol anchored protein; Lipid rafts; Lymphocyte activation protein 6A; Self renewal; Stem cell; Stem cell antigen 1

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL ANTIGEN 1;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN FUNCTION; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL TYPE; DERMIS; HEART MUSCLE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIVER CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARENCHYMA; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, LY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 34547120690     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0644     Document Type: Review

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