Physiological normoxia and absence of EGF is required for the long-term propagation of anterior neural precursors from human pluripotent cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bilican, Bilada ^a,b   Livesey, Matthew R ^a   Haghi, Ghazal ^a   Qiu, Jing ^a   Burr, Karen ^a,b   Siller, Rick ^a,b   Hardingham, Giles E ^a   Wyllie, David J A ^a   Chandran, Siddharthan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; OXYGEN;

ANTERIOR FOREBRAIN; ANTERIOR NEURAL PRECURSOR CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL IDENTITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL LONG TERM PROPAGATION; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL EXCITATORY NEURON; CRYOPRESERVATION; FOREBRAIN; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NORMOXIA; OXYGENATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEURONS; OXYGEN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896777771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085932     Document Type: Article

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