Epigenetic setting and reprogramming for neural cell fate determination and differentiation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1652, 2014, Pages

  Imamura, Takuya ^a   Uesaka, Masahiro ^a,b   Nakashima, Kinichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Histone acetylation; Histone methylation; Non coding RNA; Polycomb repressive complex 2; REST

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; METHYLATION; RNA; TRANSPLANTATION;

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL STEM CELLS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84906089151     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0511     Document Type: Review

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