Ectopic expression of Cvh (Chicken Vasa homologue) mediates the reprogramming of chicken embryonic stem cells to a germ cell fate

Developmental Biology

Volumn 330, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-82

  Lavial, Fabrice ^a   Acloque, Hervé ^b   Bachelard, Elodie ^a   Nieto, M Angela ^b   Samarut, Jacques ^a   Pain, Bertrand ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Chicken; Germ cells; Reprogramming; Stem cells; Vasa

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GONAD; HEREDITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 67349116498     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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