Signaling network crosstalk in human pluripotent cells: A Smad2/3-regulated switch that controls the balance between self-renewal and differentiation

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 312-326

  Singh, Amar M ^a   Reynolds, David ^a   Cliff, Timothy ^a   Ohtsuka, Satoshi ^a   Mattheyses, Alexa L ^b   Sun, Yuhua ^a   Menendez, Laura ^a   Kulik, Michael ^a   Dalton, Stephen ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAF PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENES, SWITCH; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN;

EID: 84863241921     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: 18759777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2012.01.014     Document Type: Article

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