Derivation of extraembryonic endoderm stem (XEN) cells from mouse embryos and embryonic stem cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1028-1041

  Niakan, Kathy K ^a,c   Schrode, Nadine ^b   Cho, Lily T Y ^a   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; GROWTH FACTOR; RETINOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXTRAEMBRYONIC ENDODERM STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TROPHOBLAST;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDODERM; GATA6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICE; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84879349995     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.049     Document Type: Article

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