Single-cell pluripotency regulatory networks

Proteomics

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 2303-2312

  Stumpf, Patrick S ^a,b   Ewing, Rob ^b   MacArthur, Ben D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell biology; Cell to cell variability; Cellular reprogramming; Controllability of complex networks; Pluripotency; Single cell networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PLASTICITY; CELL POPULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 84985904907     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201500528     Document Type: Article

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