Unravelling stem cell dynamics by lineage tracing

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 489-502

  Blanpain, Cédric ^a   Simons, Benjamin D ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FATE; CELL KINETICS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOMEOSTASIS; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; STEM CELL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRACKING; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STEM CELLS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84880794274     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3625     Document Type: Review

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