Leukemia inhibitory factor-expressing human embryonic lung fibroblasts as feeder cells for human embryonic germ cells

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 221-228

  Li, Fangfei ^a   Liu, Yonggang ^a   Chen, Dilong ^a   Lin, Xuemei ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Wang, Jianwei ^a   Peng, Yan ^a   Wang, Shali ^a   Wang, Yaping ^a  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Feeder layer; Human embryonic germ cells; Human embryonic stem cells; Leukemia inhibitory factor; Primordial germ cells

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; TUMOR REJECTION ANTIGEN; TUMOR REJECTION ANTIGEN 1-60; TUMOR REJECTION ANTIGEN 1-81; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; FETUS LUNG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG FIBROBLAST; MORPHOLOGY; NANOG GENE; OCT4 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LUNG; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 35548936529     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107637     Document Type: Article

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