The majority of early primordial germ cells acquire pluripotency by AKT activation

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 4457-4467

  Matsui, Yasuhisa ^a,b   Takehara, Asuka ^a   Tokitake, Yuko ^a,b   Ikeda, Makiko ^a   Obara, Yuka ^a   Morita Fujimura, Yuiko ^a   Kimura, Tohru ^c   Nakano, Toru ^b,d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AKT; BFGF; EGCs; LIF; PGCs

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; STEEL FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LIF PROTEIN, MOUSE; LYSYL-ARGINYL-THREONYL-GLYCYL-GLUTAMINYL-TYROSYL-LYSYL-LEUCYL-CYSTEINE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE B; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CHIMERA; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; CHIMERA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENOTYPE; GERM CELLS; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MICE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL FACTOR;

EID: 84911499346     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.113779     Document Type: Article

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