Constructing a mouse Oct4 promoter/EGFP vector, as a whole-cellular reporter to monitor the pluripotent state of cells

Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-9

  Ghorbani, Reza ^a,b   Emamzadeh, Abdolrahman ^b   Khazaie, Vahya ^a   Dormiani, Kianoush ^a   Ghaedi, Kamran ^a,b   Rabbani, Mohammad ^b   Foruzanfar, Mahboubeh ^a   Karbalaie, Khadijeh ^a   Karamali, Fereshteh ^a   Lachinani, Liana ^a   Kiani Esfahani, Abbas ^a   Nematollahi, Marzieh ^a   Esfahani, Mohammad Hossein Nasr ^a  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cells; Enhanced green fluorescent protein; Mice; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WHOLE CELL;

EID: 84873117655     PISSN: 20082835     EISSN: 20084625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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