Chicken embryonic stem cells as a non-mammalian embryonic stem cell model

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-114

  Lavial, Fabrice ^a,c   Pain, Bertrand ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blastoderm; Chicken; Germ cells; Nanog; Oct4; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

BLASTODERM; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE; GERM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 74549162725     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01152.x     Document Type: Review

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