Lentiviral rescue of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 expression in Flk1-/- embryonic stem cells shows early priming of endothelial precursors

Stem Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2987-2995

  Li, Xiujuan ^a   Edholm, Dan ^a   Lanner, Fredrik ^b   Breier, Georg ^c   Farnebo, Filip ^b   Dimberg, Anna ^a   Claesson Welsh, Lena ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Embryoid bodies differentiation; Endothelial cells; Flk1; Stem cells; Vascular endothelial growth factor; Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLK1 GENE; GENE; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LENTIVIRUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 37349116739     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0397     Document Type: Article

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