Soft microenvironments promote the early neurogenic differentiation but not self-renewal of human pluripotent stem cells

Integrative Biology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1049-1058

  Keung, Albert J ^a,c   Asuri, Prashanth ^a,d   Kumar, Sanjay ^a,b   Schaffer, David V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d Santa Clara University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84870903078     PISSN: 17579694     EISSN: 17579708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2ib20083j     Document Type: Article

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