Metabolic switching and cell fate decisions: implications for pluripotency, reprogramming and development

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 46, Issue , 2017, Pages 44-49

  Cliff, Tim S ^a   Dalton, Stephen ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GROWTH FACTOR; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ADULT STEM CELL; AEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS; AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METABOLIC REGULATION; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; MUSCLE STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 85021209015     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2017.06.008     Document Type: Review

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