Derivation, expansion and differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells in continuous suspension cultures

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 509-516

  Fluri, David A ^a,b   Tonge, Peter D ^c   Song, Hannah ^a,b   Baptista, Ricardo P ^a,b   Shakiba, Nika ^a,b   Shukla, Shreya ^a,b   Clarke, Geoffrey ^a,b   Nagy, Andras ^b,c   Zandstra, Peter W ^a,b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; GERM LAYER; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHIMERA; FIBROBLASTS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING;

EID: 84860355832     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1939     Document Type: Article

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