Signaling networks in human pluripotent stem cells

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 241-246

  Dalton, Stephen ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; BETA CATENIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; INSULIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN; WNT PROTEIN; ACTIVIN; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL RENEWAL; ENDODERM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEADY STATE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; INSULIN; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877928511     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.09.005     Document Type: Review

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