Canonical Wnt signaling promotes early hematopoietic progenitor formation and erythroid specification during embryonic stem cell differentiation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Tarafdar, Anuradha ^a,b   Dobbin, Edwina ^c   Corrigan, Pamela ^b   Freeburn, Robin ^d   Wheadon, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BRACHYURY PROTEIN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PROTEIN LEF; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SPECIFICATION; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ERYTHROID CELL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HEMANGIOBLAST; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84896721463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081030     Document Type: Article

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