Generation of human female reproductive tract epithelium from human embryonic stem cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Ye, Louie ^a   Mayberry, Robyn ^b   Lo, Camden Y ^b   Britt, Kara L ^b   Stanley, Edouard G ^b   Elefanty, Andrew G ^b   Gargett, Caroline E ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79958864997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021136     Document Type: Article

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