Comparison of the gene expression profiles of human fetal cortical astrocytes with pluripotent stem cell derived neural stem cells identifies human astrocyte markers and signaling pathways and transcription factors active in human astrocytes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Malik, Nasir ^a   Wang, Xiantao ^a   Shah, Sonia ^a   Efthymiou, Anastasia G ^a   Yan, Bin ^b   Heman Ackah, Sabrina ^a   Zhan, Ming ^c   Rao, Mahendra ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; GFAP PROTEIN; NFI PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GFAP GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEURAL STEM CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; UPREGULATION;

ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FETUS; GENE ONTOLOGY; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84901320352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096139     Document Type: Article

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