Myocardin Overexpression Is Sufficient for Promoting the Development of a Mature Smooth Muscle Cell-Like Phenotype from Human Embryonic Stem Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Raphel, Linda ^a   Talasila, Amarnath ^a   Cheung, Christine ^a   Sinha, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CARBACHOL; MYOCARDIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84865520545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044052     Document Type: Article

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