Stochasticity and the molecular mechanisms of induced pluripotency

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  MacArthur, Ben D ^a,b   Please, Colin P ^b   Oreffo, Richard O C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; BMP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; MAMMAL CELL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SOMATIC CELL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; STROMA CELL;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSTEOBLASTS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PPAR GAMMA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 52649162487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003086     Document Type: Article

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