β-Catenin Functions Pleiotropically in Differentiation and Tumorigenesis in Mouse Embryo-Derived Stem Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Okumura, Noriko ^b   Akutsu, Hidenori ^a   Sugawara, Tohru ^a   Miura, Takumi ^a   Takezawa, Youki ^a   Hosoda, Akihiro ^a   Yoshida, Keiichi ^a   Ichida, Justin K ^c   Yamada, Mitsutoshi ^b   Hamatani, Toshio ^b   Kuji, Naoaki ^b   Miyado, Kenji ^a   Yoshimura, Yasunori ^b   Umezawa, Akihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Harvard University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TERATOMA;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BLASTOCYST; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TERATOMA;

EID: 84877744686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063265     Document Type: Article

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