Caspase Activity Mediates the Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 595-601

  Fujita, Jun ^a   Crane, Ana M ^a   Souza, Marlon K ^a   Dejosez, Marion ^a   Kyba, Michael ^c   Flavell, Richard A ^d   Thomson, James A ^e   Zwaka, Thomas P ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

STEMCELL

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERM LAYER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOMATIC CELL;

EID: 44349111132     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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