Derivation of neural precursor cells from human ES cells at 3% O 2 is efficient, enhances survival and presents no barrier to regional specification and functional differentiation

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1016-1023

  Stacpoole, S R L ^a,c   Bilican, B ^b   Webber, D J ^a   Luzhynskaya, A ^a   He, X L ^a   Compston, A ^a   Karadottir, R ^a   Franklin, R J M ^a   Chandran, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

embryonic stem cells; hypoxia; neural conversion; neural differentiation; neural stem cells

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 2; NEUROTROPHIN; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; OXYGEN;

EID: 79955814688     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2010.171     Document Type: Article

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