Efficient generation of lens progenitor cells and lentoid bodies from human embryonic stem cells in chemically defined conditions

FASEB Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3274-3283

  Yang, Chunbo ^a   Yang, Ying ^a   Brennan, Lisa ^b   Bouhassira, Eric E ^a   Kantorow, Marc ^b   Cvekl, Ales ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataract; Crystallins; Growth factors; Pax6

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; AQUAPORIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FILENSIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; NOGGIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LENS; NEUROECTODERM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELLS;

IPS;

EID: 77956634746     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.10-157255     Document Type: Article

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