Transcription profiling of mouse ES cells and EpiSCs

ABSTRACT: The application of human embryonic stem (ES) cells in medicine; and biology has an inherent reliance on understanding the starting; cell population. Human ES cells differ from mouse ES cells and the; specific embryonic origin of both cell types is unclear. Previous; work suggested that mouse ES cells could only be obtained from; the embryo before implantation in the uterus1–5. Here we show; that cell lines can be derived from the epiblast, a tissue of the postimplantation; embryo that generates the embryo proper. These; cells, which we refer to as EpiSCs (post-implantation epiblastderived; ES cells), express transcription factors known to regulate; pluripotency, maintain their genomic integrity, and robustly differentiate; into the major somatic cell types as well as primordial; germ cel

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Paul Tesar 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-7866 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress