Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) enhances germ cell differentiation from primate embryonic stem cells

Cellular Reprogramming

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-376

  Fukunaga, Naoto ^a   Teramura, Takeshi ^b   Onodera, Yuta ^b   Takehara, Toshiyuki ^a   Fukuda, Kanji ^b   Hosoi, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERM CELL; MEIOSIS; MONKEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GERM CELLS; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MACACA FASCICULARIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

MACACA FASCICULARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 77955138762     PISSN: 21524971     EISSN: 21524998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cell.2009.0097     Document Type: Article

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