High-throughput identification of genes promoting neuron formation and lineage choice in mouse embryonic stem cells

Stem Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1539-1545

  Falk, Anna ^a   Karlsson, Tobias E ^a   Kurdija, Sanja ^a   Friśen, Jonas ^a   Zupicich, Joel ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Embryonic stem cells; Fluorescence activated cell sorting analysis; Fluorescent protein reporter genes; Gene delivery systems in vivo or in vitro; Gene expression; Neural differentiation; Stem cell culture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 34547122872     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0485     Document Type: Article

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