The WNT receptor FZD7 contributes to self-renewal signaling of human embryonic stem cells

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 389, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 897-903

  Melchior, Kai ^a   Weiß, Jonathan ^a   Zaehres, Holm ^b   Kim, Yong Mi ^a   Lutzko, Carolyn ^a   Roosta, Neda ^a   Hescheler, Jürgen ^c   Müschen, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frizzled receptors; Germ layers; OCT4; SAGE; WNT signaling

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; WNT RECEPTOR FZD7;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GERM LAYER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION;

CELL DIVISION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 49149118760     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2008.108     Document Type: Article

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