Self-contained induction of neurons from human embryonic stem cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Okuno, Tsuyoshi ^a,b   Nakayama, Takashi ^c   Konishi, Nae ^a   Michibata, Hideo ^a   Wakimoto, Koji ^a   Suzuki, Yutaka ^a   Nito, Shinji ^a   Inaba, Toshio ^b   Nakano, Imaharu ^d   Muramatsu, Shin Ichi ^d   Takano, Makoto ^d   Kondo, Yasushi ^a   Inoue, Nobuo ^e  

^a MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NEURONS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 67651246896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006318     Document Type: Article

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