Direct lineage reprogramming: Strategies, mechanisms, and applications

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 119-134

  Xu, Jun ^a,b   Du, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Deng, Hongkui ^a,b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ASTROCYTE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; TARGET CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84924264526     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: 18759777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2015.01.013     Document Type: Review

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