Mechanics regulates fate decisions of human embryonic stem cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Yubing ^a   Villa Diaz, Luis G ^a   Lam, Raymond H W ^a,b   Chen, Weiqiang ^a   Krebsbach, Paul H ^a   Fu, Jianping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UVOMORULIN; BLEBBISTATIN; CADHERIN; DIMETICONE; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; NYLON; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; POLY(DIMETHYLSILOXANE) POLYAMIDE COPOLYMER; POLY(DIMETHYLSILOXANE)-POLYAMIDE COPOLYMER; POU5F1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CONTACT; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECHANICS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIGIDITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL;

CADHERINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOSKELETON; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS WITH 4 OR MORE RINGS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NYLONS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84861206658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037178     Document Type: Article

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