Embryonic stem cells facilitate the isolation of persistent clonal cardiovascular progenitor cell lines and Leukemia inhibitor factor maintains their self-renewal and myocardial differentiation potential in vitro

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 249-268

  Hoebaus, Julia ^a   Heher, Philipp ^a   Gottschamel, Teresa ^a   Scheinast, Matthias ^a   Auner, Harmen ^a   Walder, Diana ^a   Wiedner, Marc ^a   Taubenschmid, Jasmin ^a   Miksch, Maximilian ^a   Sauer, Thomas ^a   Schultheis, Martina ^a   Kuzmenkin, Alexey ^b   Seiser, Christian ^a   Hescheler, Juergen ^b   Weitzer, Georg ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiomyocytes; Cardiomyogenesis; Cardiovascular progenitor cells; Clonal cell lines; Leukemia inhibitory factor; Persistent self renewal; Restricted differentiation potential; Smooth muscle cells; Somatic stem cells; Vascular endothelial cells

Indexed keywords

LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL RENEWAL; CLONAL CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENITOR CELL LINE; STEM CELL NICHE;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 84876128541     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345804     Document Type: Article

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