Highly efficient differentiation and enrichment of spinal motor neurons derived from human and monkey embryonic stem cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Wada, Tamaki ^a   Honda, Makoto ^a   Minami, Itsunari ^a   Tooi, Norie ^a   Amagai, Yuji ^a   Nakatsuji, Norio ^b,c   Aiba, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a Stem Cell and Drug Discovery Institute   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; NESTIN; NOGGIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MONKEY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOTUBE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; HAPLORHINI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR NEURONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 69249202573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006722     Document Type: Article

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