3D mouse embryonic stem cell culture for generating inner ear organoids

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1229-1244

  Koehler, Karl R ^a   Hashino, Eri ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCLEROPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPITHELIZATION; HAIR CELL; INNER EAR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STEM CELL CULTURE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EAR, INNER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; MICE; ORGANOIDS;

EID: 84901849749     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.100     Document Type: Article

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