Signaling roadmap modulating naive and primed pluripotency

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 193-208

  Hassani, Seyedeh Nafiseh ^a,b   Totonchi, Mehdi ^a,b   Gourabi, Hamid ^a   Schöler, Hans R ^c   Baharvand, Hossein ^a,b  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE   (Iran)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN NODAL; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMAD8 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL RENEWAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; PETRI DISH; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84893126593     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: 15578534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2013.0368     Document Type: Article

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