Chromatin in early mammalian embryos: Achieving the pluripotent state

Differentiation

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-14

  Fulka, Helena ^a,b   St John, Justin C ^c   Fulka, Josef ^d   Hozák, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Embryo; Epigenetic; Somatic cell nuclear transfer

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; INNER CELL MASS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 38149094177     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.2007.00247.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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