Mapping the networks for pluripotency

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1575, 2011, Pages 2238-2246

  Xue, Kun ^a   Ng, Jia Hui ^a,b   Ng, Huck Hui ^a,b,c  

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cell; Mouse embryonic stem cell like interconversion; Pluripotency; Signalling pathways; Transcriptional network

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RODENT; SIGNAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79960071635     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0005     Document Type: Article

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