Engineering tissue from human embryonic stem cells: Tissue Engineering Review Series

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 709-729

  Metallo, C M ^a   Azarin, S M ^a,b   Ji, L ^a,b   De Pablo, J J ^a   Palecek, S P ^a,b,c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b WiCell Research Institute   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Differentiation; Ectoderm; Endoderm; Human embryonic stem cells; Mesoderm; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; HUMAN; MESODERM; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDODERM; HUMANS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 44149128201     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2008.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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