Direct conversion of mouse fibroblasts into induced neural stem cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 871-881

  Kim, Sung Min ^a,b   Flaßkamp, Hannah ^c   Hermann, Andreas ^d,e   Araúzo Bravo, Marcos Jesús ^c,f,g   Lee, Seung Chan ^a   Lee, Sung Ho ^b   Seo, Eun Hye ^a   Lee, Seung Hyun ^a   Storch, Alexander ^d,e   Lee, Hoon Taek ^b   Schöler, Hans R ^c,h   Tapia, Natalia ^c   Han, Dong Wook ^a  

^a Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

^f BIODONOSTIA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^g BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN POU3F4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; POU3F4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SOX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; CHEMICAL REACTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CONVERSION; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE; VIRUS GENE; ANIMAL; C3H MOUSE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; ONCOGENE MYC; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, MYC; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84897141348     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.056     Document Type: Article

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