Activation of human embryonic gene expression in cytoplasmic hybrid embryos constructed between bovine oocytes and human fibroblasts

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 297-305

  Li, Feng ^a   Cao, Henhua ^b   Zhang, Quanjun ^b   Li, Ruichang ^b   Chen, Xuejin ^a   Fang, Zhengfu ^a   Xue, Ke ^a   Chen, Da Yuan ^c   Sheng, Hui Z ^a,d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shengneng Group   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BETA ACTIN GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CYTOPLASM; E CADHERIN GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; HYBRID; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4 GENE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOX2 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG GENE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHIMERA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; OOCYTES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PREGNANCY;

BOVINAE;

EID: 51349115024     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2007.0084     Document Type: Article

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