Conversion from mouse embryonic to extra-embryonic endoderm stem cells reveals distinct differentiation capacities of pluripotent stem cell states

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2866-2877

  Cho, Lily T Y ^a   Wamaitha, Sissy E ^a   Tsai, Isheng J ^b   Artus, Jérôme ^c,e   Sherwood, Richard I ^d   Pedersen, Roger A ^a   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^c   Niakan, Kathy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Directed differentiation; Extra embryonic endoderm; FGF; Mouse embryo; Pluripotent stem cells

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; IMPLANTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDODERM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GATA6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HMGB PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RECEPTOR, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; SOXF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84864317362     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.078519     Document Type: Article

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