Sox17 facilitates the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells into primitive and definitive endoderm in vitro

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 585-593

  Qu, Xue Bin ^a   Pan, Jie ^a   Zhang, Cong ^a   Huang, Shu Yang ^a  

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Definitive endoderm; Embryoid body; Mouse embryonic stem cell; Primitive endoderm; Sox17

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; SOX17 GENE; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HMGB PROTEINS; MICE; SOXF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 49349105787     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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