Human second trimester amniotic fluid cells are able to create embryoid body-like structures in vitro and to show typical expression profiles of embryonic and primordial germ cells

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1501-1515

  Antonucci, Ivana ^a   Di Pietro, Roberta ^a   Alfonsi, Melissa ^a   Centurione, Maria Antonietta ^a   Centurione, Lucia ^a   Sancilio, Silvia ^a   Pelagatti, Francesca ^a   D’Amico, Maria Angela ^a   Di Baldassarre, Angela ^a   Piattelli, Adriano ^a   Tetè, Stefano ^a,b   Palka, Giandomenico ^a   Borlongan, Cesar V ^b   Stuppia, Liborio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid stem cells (AFSCs); Pluripotency; Primordial germ cells (PGCs)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYOID BODIES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND;

EID: 84920084310     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: 15553892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368914X678553     Document Type: Article

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