TY - CHAP AU - Qiang-Sun Zheng AU - Dong-Bo Ou AU - Xiong-Tao Liu AU - Jing-Jing Guo ED - Craig Atwood Y1 - 2011-04-26 PY - 2011 T1 - Maintaining Embryonic Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells N2 - Pluripotency is a prerequisite for the subsequent coordinated differentiation of embryonic stem cells into all tissues of the body. This book describes recent advances in our understanding of pluripotency and the hormonal regulation of embryonic stem cell differentiation into tissue types derived from the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm. BT - Embryonic Stem Cells SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/14782 DO - 10.5772/14782 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -