Brief report: Self-organizing neuroepithelium from human pluripotent stem cells facilitates derivation of photoreceptors

Stem Cells

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 408-414

  Boucherie, Cedric ^a   Mukherjee, Sayandip ^c   Henckaerts, Els ^b   Thrasher, Adrian J ^d   Sowden, Jane C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Molecular Immunology Unit and Centre for Immunodeficiency   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d London School of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embryonic; Extracellular matrix; Induced pluripotent; Photoreceptors; Retina; Three dimensional culture

Indexed keywords

DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NOGGIN; RHODOPSIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROEPITHELIUM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; RETINA ROD;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LAMININ; LENTIVIRUS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTEOGLYCANS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84874322462     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1268     Document Type: Article

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