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Formation of Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Mammalian Embryo Depends on the POU Transcription Factor Oct4

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It is reported that the activity of Oct4 is essential for the identity of the pluripotential founder cell population in the mammalian embryo and also determines paracrine growth factor signaling from stem cells to the trophectoderm.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1998-10-30 and is currently open access. It has received 3461 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Embryonic stem cell & Oct-4.

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Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors.

TL;DR: Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic or adult fibroblasts by introducing four factors, Oct3/4, Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4, under ES cell culture conditions is demonstrated and iPS cells, designated iPS, exhibit the morphology and growth properties of ES cells and express ES cell marker genes.
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Epigenetic regulation of gene expression: how the genome integrates intrinsic and environmental signals

TL;DR: Advances in the understanding of the mechanism and role of DNA methylation in biological processes are reviewed, showing that epigenetic mechanisms seem to allow an organism to respond to the environment through changes in gene expression.
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Core transcriptional regulatory circuitry in human embryonic stem cells.

TL;DR: Insight is provided into the transcriptional regulation of stem cells and how OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG contribute to pluripotency and self-renewal and how they collaborate to form regulatory circuitry consisting of autoregulatory and feedforward loops.
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Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells

TL;DR: iPS cells competent for germline chimaeras can be obtained from fibroblasts, but retroviral introduction of c-Myc should be avoided for clinical application.
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Quantitative expression of Oct-3/4 defines differentiation, dedifferentiation or self-renewal of ES cells.

TL;DR: A role is established for Oct-3/4 as a master regulator of pluripotency that controls lineage commitment and the sophistication of critical transcriptional regulators is illustrated and the consequent importance of quantitative analyses are illustrated.
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Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos

TL;DR: The establishment in tissue culture of pluripotent cell lines which have been isolated directly from in vitro cultures of mouse blastocysts are reported, able to differentiate either in vitro or after innoculation into a mouse as a tumour in vivo.
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Isolation of a pluripotent cell line from early mouse embryos cultured in medium conditioned by teratocarcinoma stem cells

TL;DR: In this article, the authors described the establishment directly from normal preimplantation mouse embryos of a cell line that forms teratocarcinomas when injected into mice and demonstrated the pluripotency of these embryonic stem cells by the observation that subclonal cultures, derived from isolated single cells, can differentiate into a wide variety of cell types.
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Teratocarcinomas and embryonic stem cells : a practical approach

TL;DR: The results allowed us to assess the importance of knowing the carrier and removal status of canine coronavirus, as a source of infection for other animals, not necessarily belonging to the same breeds.
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A POU-domain transcription factor in early stem cells and germ cells of the mammalian embryo.

TL;DR: The murine oct-3 gene encodes a transcription factor containing a POU-specific domain and a homeodomain, which is expressed in the totipotent and pluripotent stem cells of the pre-gastrulation embryo and is down-regulated during differentiation to endoderm and mesoderm, suggesting that it has a role in early development.
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