... ES and EG cell lines from the human blastocyst and embryonic gonad can differentiate into multiple types of somatic cell. The phenotype of the blastocyst-derived cell lines is very similar to that of monkey ES cells and pluripotent human embryonal carcinoma cells, but differs from that of mouse ES...

... embryonal carcinoma (EC) cell differentiation as a model for embryonic development of epithelial surface desmosomes. As determined by immunofluorescence microscopy and biochemical protein techniques, F9 EC cells, which lack surface desmosomes and keratin IFs, express the desmosomal proteins desmoplakins I...

...T. M. Sweeney; Roy C. Ogle; C. D. Little ABSTRACT The embryonal carcinoma PCC4uva differentiates into neurons in response to treatment with retinoic acid and dbcAMP. We used this in vitro model system to study the effects of laminin on early neural differentiation. Laminin substrata markedly...

...Jukka Tienari; Ismo Virtanen; Eero Lehtonen ABSTRACT Undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells bound fluorochrome-coupled Helix pomatia agglutinins (HPA) and peanut agglutinins (PNA) homogeneously, but were distinctly heterogeneous in their binding of Dolicbos biflorus agglutinin (DBA...

...John K. Heath; Austin G. Smith ABSTRACT The analysis of factors which regulate cell proliferation and differentiation in early mammalian development has been facilitated by the existence of cell lines derived from pluripotential stem cells of the early embryo; embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells...

...Wilhelm Engström ABSTRACT The effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on clones from a human embryonal carcinoma-derived cell line (Tera-2) have been studied. Cells were plated at clonal densities, whereafter the effects of serum and EGF on cell locomotion and cell proliferation were examined...

... gap junction embryonal carcinoma dye coupling ionic coupling Gap junctions are specialized intercellular junctions that contain membrane channels that allow the direct passive diffusion of low molecular weight molecules between cells. Given this latter property, it has been suggested...