Gene expression in undifferentiated human ES cells - Agilent

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 cells. The EpiS

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Paul Tesar 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-7900 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress