ES Micro-Environment Enhances Stemness and Inhibits Apoptosis in Human Limbal Stem Cells via the Maintenance of Telomerase Activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Zhiping ^a   Wan, Pengxia ^a   Duan, Hucheng ^b   Zhou, Jin ^a   Tan, Bowei ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Zhou, Qiang ^a   Zhou, Chenjing ^a   Huang, Zheqian ^a   Tian, Bishan ^a   Li, Chaoyang ^a   Wang, Zhichong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ophthalmic Center of the Second People's Hospital of Foshan   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; PROTEIN P21; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TELOMERASE; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPORT; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMBAL STEM CELL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; SUPERNATANT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TELOMERASE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84872221670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053576     Document Type: Article

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