Reprogramming barriers and enhancers: Strategies to enhance the efficiency and kinetics of induced pluripotency

Cell Regeneration

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 4:10-

  Ebrahimi, Behnam ^a  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

C EBP ; Cellular reprogramming; IPSCs; Mbd3; P53

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; HISTONE H3; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE 3 KINASE; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 3; MICRORNA 200; MICRORNA 205; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MYC PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARID3A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRIGHT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLIS1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL TRANSFORMATION; DEACETYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL TO EPITHELIAL TRANSITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85005978070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20459769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13619-015-0024-9     Document Type: Review

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