Control of early fate decisions in human ES cells by distinct states of TGFβ pathway activity

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1065-1077

  Greber, Boris ^a,b   Lehrach, Hans ^a   Adjaye, James ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMAD8 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NANOG GENE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOX2 GENE;

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 57449090247     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2008.0035     Document Type: Article

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