Reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts into cardiomyocyte-like cells in vitro

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1204-1215

  Qian, Li ^a,b,c,e   Berry, Emily C ^a,b,c   Fu, Ji Dong ^a,b,c   Ieda, Masaki ^d   Srivastava, Deepak ^a,b,c  

^a GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE   (United States)

^b Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MEF2C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOCYTE LIKE CELL; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IN VITRO CARDIAC REPROGRAMMING; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; FIBROBLASTS; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENETIC VECTORS; MEF2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RETROVIRIDAE; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

EID: 84879333188     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.067     Document Type: Article

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