Early first trimester human embryonic cardiac Islet-1 progenitor cells and cardiomyocytes: Immunohistochemical and electrophysiological characterization

Stem Cell Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-76

  Genead, Rami ^a   Danielsson, Christian ^a   Wärdell, Eva ^a   Kjaeldgaard, Anders ^a   Westgren, Magnus ^a   Sundström, Erik ^a   Franco Cereceda, Anders ^a   Sylvén, Christer ^a   Grinnemo, Karl Henrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TROPONIN T;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; CARDIAC STEM CELL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZE THAWING; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; STEM CELLS;

EID: 73349115849     PISSN: 18735061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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