The ability of inner-cell-mass cells to self-renew as embryonic stem cells is acquired following epiblast specification

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 513-525

  Boroviak, Thorsten ^a   Loos, Remco ^b   Bertone, Paul ^a,b,c   Smith, Austin ^a   Nichols, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL MATURATION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; 129 MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; CELL CLONE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM LAYER; GESTATIONAL AGE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST INNER CELL MASS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONE CELLS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM LAYERS; GESTATIONAL AGE; LAMININ; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84901758151     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2965     Document Type: Article

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