Establishment of rat embryonic stem cells and making of chimera rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Ueda, Shinobu ^a,b   Kawamata, Masaki ^a   Teratani, Takumi ^a   Shimizu, Taku ^c   Tamai, Yoshitaka ^c   Ogawa, Hiromasa ^d   Hayashi, Katsuyuki ^e   Tsuda, Hiroyuki ^f   Ochiya, Takahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Banyu Pharmaceutical Co   (Japan)

^d ST Japan Inc   (Japan)

^e DNA CHIP RESEARCH INC   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 3; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MODIFICATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; KARYOTYPE; MAMMAL; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 50949103238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002800     Document Type: Article

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