Novel effectors of directed and Ngn3-mediated differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells into endocrine pancreas progenitors

Stem Cells

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-16

  Serafimidis, Ioannis ^a   Rakatzi, Irini ^a   Episkopou, Vasso ^b   Gouti, Mina ^a   Gavalas, Anthony ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directed differentiation; Embryonic stem cells; Endocrine pancreas; Gene regulation; Microarrays; Signaling pathways

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; HORMONE; INSULIN; INTEGRIN; NEUROGENIN 3; NOTCH RECEPTOR; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOCRINE CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE CONTROL; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN RELEASE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 38349047613     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0194     Document Type: Article

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