Interspecies chimera between primate embryonic stem cells and mouse embryos: Monkey ESCs engraft into mouse embryos, but not post-implantation fetuses

Stem Cell Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-40

  Simerly, Calvin ^a   McFarland, Dave ^a   Castro, Carlos ^a   Lin, Chih Cheng ^a   Redinger, Carrie ^a   Jacoby, Ethan ^a,c   Mich Basso, Jocelyn ^a,d   Orwig, Kyle ^a   Mills, Parker ^b   Ahrens, Eric ^b   Navara, Chris ^a,e   Schatten, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTULA; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHIMERA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENGRAFTMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREGNANCY;

PAPIO; PRIMATES;

EID: 79956344347     PISSN: 18735061     EISSN: 18767753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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