The WNT receptor FZD7 is required for maintenance of the pluripotent state in human embryonic stem cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1409-1414

  Fernandez, Antonio ^a   Huggins, Ian J ^a   Perna, Luca ^a   Brafman, David ^a   Lu, Desheng ^b,d   Yao, Shiyin ^b   Gaasterland, Terry ^c   Carson, Dennis A ^b   Willert, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT RECEPTOR FZD7; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SELF-RENEWAL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; HUMANS; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT3A PROTEIN;

EID: 84893366143     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323697111     Document Type: Article

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