Multiple roles of Activin/Nodal, bone morphogenetic protein, fibroblast growth factor and Wnt/ -catenin signalling in the anterior neural patterning of adherent human embryonic stem cell cultures

Sustained Levels of FGF2 Maintain Undifferentiated Stem Cell Cultures with Biweekly Feeding

(2013) Steven Lotz et al.   PLoS One

Self-Formation of Optic Cups and Storable Stratified Neural Retina from Human ESCs

(2012) Tokushige Nakano et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Human cerebral cortex development from pluripotent stem cells to functional excitatory synapses

(2012) Yichen Shi et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Directing Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Toward Anterior Neural Ectoderm Using Small Molecules

(2012) Beata Surmacz et al.   STEM CELLS

Generation of Regionally Specified Neural Progenitors and Functional Neurons from Human Embryonic Stem Cells under Defined Conditions

(2012) Agnete Kirkeby et al.   Cell Reports

BRACHYURY and CDX2 Mediate BMP-Induced Differentiation of Human and Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cells into Embryonic and Extraembryonic Lineages

(2011) Andreia S. Bernardo et al.   Cell Stem Cell

The role of Pax6 in forebrain development

(2011) Petrina A. Georgala et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

FGF signalling inhibits neural induction in human embryonic stem cells

(2011) Boris Greber et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Human motor neuron generation from embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells

(2010) M. Nizzardo et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

The role of FGF-signaling in early neural specification of human embryonic stem cells

(2010) Malkiel A. Cohen et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Molecular regulation of vertebrate retina cell fate

(2009) Massimiliano Andreazzoli   BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH PART C-EMBRYO TODAY-REVIEWS

Tankyrase inhibition stabilizes axin and antagonizes Wnt signalling

(2009) Shih-Min A. Huang et al.   NATURE

Highly efficient neural conversion of human ES and iPS cells by dual inhibition of SMAD signaling

(2009) Stuart M Chambers et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Early Cell Fate Decisions of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Mouse Epiblast Stem Cells Are Controlled by the Same Signalling Pathways

(2009) Ludovic Vallier et al.   PLoS One

Activin/Nodal Inhibition Alone Accelerates Highly Efficient Neural Conversion from Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Imposes a Caudal Positional Identity

(2009) Rickie Patani et al.   PLoS One

A rosette-type, self-renewing human ES cell-derived neural stem cell with potential for in vitro instruction and synaptic integration

(2009) P. Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling early retinal development with human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells

(2009) J. S. Meyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regulation of Neural Specification from Human Embryonic Stem Cells by BMP and FGF

(2009) Timothy M. LaVaute et al.   STEM CELLS

Self-Organized Formation of Polarized Cortical Tissues from ESCs and Its Active Manipulation by Extrinsic Signals

(2008) Mototsugu Eiraku et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Combinatorial Signals of Activin/Nodal and Bone Morphogenic Protein Regulate the Early Lineage Segregation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

(2008) Zhao Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Inhibition of Activin/Nodal signaling promotes specification of human embryonic stem cells into neuroectoderm

(2007) Joseph R. Smith et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY