Microenvironmental reprogramming of thymic epithelial cells to skin multipotent stem cells

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7309, 2010, Pages 978-982

  Bonfanti, Paola ^a,b,d   Claudinot, Stéphanie ^a,b   Amici, Alessandro W ^a,b   Farley, Alison ^c   Blackburn, C Clare ^c   Barrandon, Yann ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d DIABETES RESEARCH CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; RODENT; SKIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN CELL; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; CELL CLONE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONE CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; MALE; MICE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING;

RATTUS;

EID: 77955902048     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09269     Document Type: Article

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