Genome maintenance in pluripotent stem cells

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 153-163

  Weissbein, Uri ^a   Benvenisty, Nissim ^a   Ben David, Uri ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME MAINTENANCE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO PROPAGATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84892878347     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 15408140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201310135     Document Type: Review

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