A view of human haematopoietic development from the Petri dish

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 56-67

  Ditadi, Andrea ^a   Sturgeon, Christopher M ^c   Keller, Gordon ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLAST CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; COLONY FORMING CELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROID PRECURSOR CELL; HEMANGIOBLAST; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; MOUSE EMBRYO; MYELOID PROGENITOR CELL; NONHUMAN; PETRI DISH; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84997050487     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2016.127     Document Type: Review

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