Serum-Free and Feeder-Free Culture Conditions for Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 690, Issue , 2011, Pages 57-66

  Vallier, Ludovic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feeder free; Human embryonic stem cells; Pluripotency; Serum free

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYO; FETAL BOVINE SERUM; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; KARYOTYPING; METHODOLOGY;

BOVINAE;

COLLAGENASE; FIBRONECTIN;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGENASES; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MICE;

EID: 79952200041     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-962-8_3     Document Type: Chapter

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