Concise review: The involvement of SOX2 in direct reprogramming of induced neural stem/precursor cells

Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 579-583

  Maucksch, Christof ^a   Jones, Kathryn S ^a   Connor, Bronwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Neural differentiation; Neural induction; Neural stem cell; Reprogramming; Stem progenitor cell; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; DOUBLECORTIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MYC PROTEIN; NESTIN; NEUROGENIN 2; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BLBP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXG1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NCAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NR2E1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RFX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX21; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TLX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZIC3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DOWN REGULATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LETHALITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

EID: 84880937878     PISSN: 21576564     EISSN: 21576580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2012-0179     Document Type: Review

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