Metastable primordial germ cell-like state induced from mouse embryonic stem cells by Akt activation

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 392, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-316

  Yamano, Noriko ^a   Kimura, Tohru ^b   Watanabe Kushima, Shoko ^a   Shinohara, Takashi ^c   Nakano, Toru ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Akt; Cell differentiation; ES cells; Mesoderm; Primordial germ cells

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3 INHIBITOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SHAPE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFER; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MESODERM; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 76349087812     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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