Arrayed cellular microenvironments for identifying culture and differentiation conditions for stem, primary and rare cell populations

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 703-717

  Brafman, David A ^a   Chien, Shu ^b   Willert, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84861782120     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.017     Document Type: Article

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