Differentiation of human ESCs to retinal ganglion cells using a CRISPR engineered reporter cell line

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sluch, Valentin M ^a   Davis, Chung Ha O ^b   Ranganathan, Vinod ^c   Kerr, Justin M ^d   Krick, Kellin ^a   Martin, Russ ^a,e   Berlinicke, Cynthia A ^c   Marsh Armstrong, Nicholas ^a,b   Diamond, Jeffrey S ^d   Mao, Hai Quan ^a,e   Zack, Donald J ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^e Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THY 1 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, THY-1; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3B;

EID: 84947447749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16595     Document Type: Article

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