Engineering efficient retinal pigment epithelium differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells

Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1295-1305

  Lane, Amelia ^a   Philip, Lissa Rachel ^b   Ruban, Ludmila ^b   Fynes, Kate ^b   Smart, Matthew ^a   Carr, Amanda ^a   Mason, Chris ^b   Coffey, Pete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioprocess engineering; Cell differentiation; Cell therapy; Human embryonic stem cells; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; DORSOMORPHIN; GELATINASE A; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VSX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROECTODERM; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR SEEDING; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84908365190     PISSN: 21576564     EISSN: 21576580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2014-0094     Document Type: Article

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