High-efficiency motor neuron differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells and the function of Islet-1

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Qu, Qiuhao ^a,b   Li, Dong ^a,b   Louis, Kathleen R ^a   Li, Xiangzhen ^c   Yang, Hong ^a,b   Sun, Qinyu ^a,b   Crandall, Shane R ^a   Tsang, Stephanie ^a,b   Zhou, Jiaxi ^d   Cox, Charles L ^a   Cheng, Jianjun ^e   Wang, Fei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD DISEASES HOSPITAL   (China)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET CELL FUNCTION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SODIUM CURRENT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

INSULIN GENE ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ISL-1; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84896302589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4449     Document Type: Article

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