Germ line, stem cells, and epigenetic reprogramming

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2008, Pages 9-15

  Surani, M A ^a   Durcova Hills, G ^a   Hajkova, P ^a   Hayashi, K ^a   Tee, W W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECTODERM; EMBRYO CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENOME; GERM LINE; HUMAN; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELL; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; CELL SPECIFICITY; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; STEM CELL RESEARCH;

MUS;

PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; SKB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PRMT5 PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 68549115638     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2008.73.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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