Single-cell expression profiling reveals a dynamic state of cardiac precursor cells in the early mouse embryo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Kokkinopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Ishida, Hidekazu ^a   Saba, Rie ^a   Ruchaya, Prashant ^a,b   Cabrera, Claudia ^a   Struebig, Monika ^a   Barnes, Michael ^a   Terry, Anna ^a   Kaneko, Masahiro ^a   Shintani, Yasunori ^a   Coppen, Steven ^a   Shiratori, Hidetaka ^c   Ameen, Torath ^a   Mein, Charles ^a   Hamada, Hiroshi ^c   Suzuki, Ken ^a   Yashiro, Kenta ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARDIAC STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EARLY HEADFOLD STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC CARDIAC STEM CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LATE HEADFOLD STAGE; MESODERM; MESP1 GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NKX2.5 GENE; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SOX17 GENE; SOX2 GENE; TBX5 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PREGNANCY; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84949058403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140831     Document Type: Article

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