The proper criteria for identification and sorting of very small embryonic-like stem cells, and some nomenclature issues

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 702-713

  Suszynska, Malwina ^a,b   Zuba Surma, Ewa K ^c   Maj, Magdalena ^a   Mierzejewska, Kasia ^b   Ratajczak, Janina ^a,b   Kucia, Magda ^a,b   Ratajczak, Mariusz Z ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD133 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; LIPOCORTIN 5; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TERATOMA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VERY SMALL EMBRYONIC LIKE STEM CELL;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ERYTHROBLASTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84897472878     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: 15578534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2013.0472     Document Type: Article

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