Differentiation and Selection of Hepatocyte Precursors in Suspension Spheroid Culture of Transgenic Murine Embryonic Stem Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gabriel, Elke ^a   Schievenbusch, Stephanie ^a   Kolossov, Eugen ^b   Hengstler, Jan G ^c   Rotshteyn, Tamara ^a   Bohlen, Heribert ^b   Nierhoff, Dirk ^a   Hescheler, Jürgen ^a   Drobinskaya, Irina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Pluriomics BV   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CYTOKERATIN 18; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INDOCYANINE GREEN; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER 1; PUROMYCIN; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LIVER CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GLYCOGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEPATOCYTES; INDOCYANINE GREEN; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; SUSPENSIONS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

MURINAE;

EID: 84866710561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044912     Document Type: Article

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