Brief report: Evaluating the potential of putative pluripotent cells derived from human testis

Stem Cells

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1304-1309

  Ko, Kinarm ^a,b,c   Reinhardt, Peter ^a   Tapia, Natalia ^a   Schneider, Rebekka K ^d   Araúzo Bravo, Marcos J ^a   Han, Dong Wook ^a,e   Greber, Boris ^a   Kim, Julee ^a   Kliesch, Sabine ^f   Zenke, Martin ^g   Schöler, Hans R ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE   (Germany)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^e Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human adult germline stem cells; Human testicular biopsies; Human testis ESC like cells; Pluripotency; Reprogramming

Indexed keywords

KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MYC PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; STEM CELL; TESTICULAR FIBROBLASTIC CELL; TESTIS;

COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, MYC; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TERATOMA; TESTIS; TRANSGENES;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 79960850878     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.671     Document Type: Article

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