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Transcription profiling of human embryonic stem cells and neuroepithelial cells

ABSTRACT: Comparing gene expressing profile of human embryonic stem cells and neuroepithelial cells differentiated from human embryonic stem cells.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Su-Chun Zhang

PROVIDER: E-MEXP-2426 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Coordination of sonic hedgehog and Wnt signaling determines ventral and dorsal telencephalic neuron types from human embryonic stem cells.

Li Xue-Jun XJ Zhang Xiaoqing X Johnson M Austin MA Wang Zhi-Bo ZB Lavaute Timothy T Zhang Su-Chun SC

Development (Cambridge, England) 20091201 23

The directed differentiation of forebrain neuronal types from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) has not been achieved. Here, we show that hESCs differentiate to telencephalic progenitors with a predominantly dorsal identity in a chemically defined medium without known morphogens. This is attributed to endogenous Wnt signaling, which upregulates the truncated form of GLI3, a repressor of sonic hedgehog (SHH). A high concentration of SHH, or the inhibition of Wnt by dickkopf 1 (DKK1) together wit ...[more]

PMID: 19906872

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Transcription profiling of human embryonic stem cells and neuroepithelial cells

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Coordination of sonic hedgehog and Wnt signaling determines ventral and dorsal telencephalic neuron types from human embryonic stem cells.

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