Assessing the function of mTOR in human embryonic stem cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 821, Issue , 2012, Pages 361-372

  Zhou, Jiaxi ^a   Li, Dong ^a   Wang, Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Human embryonic stem cell; Long term self renewal; mTOR

Indexed keywords

MTOR PROTEIN, HUMAN; RAPAMYCIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MESODERM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDODERM; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MESODERM; MICE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84555178653     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-430-8_23     Document Type: Article

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