High content screening for compounds that induce early stages of human embryonic stem cell differentiation

Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 656-665

  Jee, Joohyun ^b   Jeon, Heekyoung ^c   Hwang, Dongyoun ^b   Sommer, Peter ^c   Park, Zewon ^b   Cechetto, Jonathan ^c   Dorval, Thierry ^a  

^a Institute Pasteur Korea   (South Korea)

^b CHA University   (South Korea)

^c Institut Pasteur Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human embryonic stem cells; Image based screening; Phenotypic classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HIGH CONTENT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84867244819     PISSN: 13862073     EISSN: 18755402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138620712802650540     Document Type: Article

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