Studying Lineage Decision-Making in Vitro: Emerging Concepts and Novel Tools

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 317-345

  Semrau, Stefan ^a   Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cells; Gene regulatory networks; In vitro differentiation; Lineage decision making; Single cell heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LINEAGE DECISION MAKING; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STEM CELL CULTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84947258947     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-100814-125300     Document Type: Article

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