The pregnancy hormones human chorionic gonadotropin and progesterone induce human embryonic stem cell proliferation and differentiation into neuroectodermal rosettes

Stem Cell Research and Therapy

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Gallego, Miguel ^a   Porayette, Prashob ^a   Kaltcheva, Maria M ^a   Bowen, Richard L ^b   Vadakkadath Meethal, Sivan ^a   Atwood, Craig S ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIFEPRISTONE; NESTIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E RECEPTOR 4; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNER CELL MASS; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSETTE FORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; MIFEPRISTONE; NESTIN; NEURAL PLATE; NEURULATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, LH; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; ROSETTE FORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79961219915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17576512     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/scrt28     Document Type: Article

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