Assembly of embryonic and extraembryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro

Science

Volumn 356, Issue 6334, 2017, Pages

  Harrison, Sarah Ellys ^a   Sozen, Berna ^a,b   Christodoulou, Neophytos ^a   Kyprianou, Christos ^a   Zernicka Goetz, Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; NODAL SIGNALING PROTEIN;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; MAMMAL; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRAEMBRYONIC TROPHOBLAST STEM CELL; GASTRULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GERM LAYER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; MESODERM; NIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; WNT SIGNALING;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GASTRULATION; GERM LAYERS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MESODERM; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TROPHOBLASTS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 85014477513     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal1810     Document Type: Article

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