Prion protein expression regulates embryonic stem cell pluripotency and differentiation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Miranda, Alberto ^a,b   Pericuesta, Eva ^a   Ramírez, Miguel Ángel ^a   Gutierrez Adan, Alfonso ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHAVBETA5 INTEGRIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRION PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; BETA INTEGRIN; BETA5 INTEGRIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NANOG PROTEIN, MOUSE; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; OVARY; PRION; TESTIS; TIME; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYOID BODIES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTEGRIN BETA CHAINS; MALE; MICE; OVARY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PRIONS; RNA, MESSENGER; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79953691810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018422     Document Type: Article

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