Hematopoietic stem cell expansion: Challenges and opportunities

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1266, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 138-150

  Walasek, Marta A ^a   van Os, Ronald ^a   de Haan, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell extrinsic factors; HSC expansion; Small molecules

Indexed keywords

6 BROMOINDIRUBIN 3' OXIME; CD135 ANTIGEN; COPPER; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTRINSIC FACTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NR 101; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RETINOIC ACID; SOMATOMEDIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TEPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL REGENERATION; EX VIVO STUDY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL EXPANSION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84865370552     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06549.x     Document Type: Article

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