Single-cell analysis reveals lineage segregation in early post-implantation mouse embryos

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 292, Issue 23, 2017, Pages 9840-9854

  Wen, Jing ^a   Zeng, Yanwu ^a   Fang, Zhuoqing ^a   Gu, Junjie ^a   Ge, Laixiang ^a   Tang, Fan ^a   Qu, Zepeng ^a   Hu, Jing ^a   Cui, Yaru ^b   Zhang, Kushan ^b   Wang, Junbang ^b   Li, Siguang ^b   Sun, Yi ^b   Jin, Ying ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION;

DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS; POST-IMPLANTATION; QUANTITATIVE RT-PCR; SINGLECELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME DATUM; VISCERAL ENDODERM;

CELL SIGNALING;

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; GATA6 PROTEIN, MOUSE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; POU5F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SOX3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GATA6 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LAYER; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCT4 GENE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SOX3 GENE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GATA6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85018510110     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M117.780585     Document Type: Article

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