Gap junctional intercellular communication is required to maintain embryonic stem cells in a non-differentiated and proliferative state

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 354-362

  Todorova, Mariana G ^a   Soria, Bernat ^b   Quesada, Ivan ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b CABIMER Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine CSIC University of Seville UPO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CONNEXIN 43; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; GAP JUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 37349002749     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21203     Document Type: Article

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