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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Brig Mecham
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-15109 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Ware Carol B CB Wang Linlin L Mecham Brigham H BH Shen Lanlan L Nelson Angelique M AM Bar Merav M Lamba Deepak A DA Dauphin Derek S DS Buckingham Brian B Askari Bardia B Lim Raymond R Tewari Muneesh M Gartler Stanley M SM Issa Jean-Pierre JP Pavlidis Paul P Duan Zhijun Z Blau C Anthony CA
Cell stem cell 20090401 4
Recent evidence indicates that mouse and human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are fixed at different developmental stages, with the former positioned earlier. We show that a narrow concentration of the naturally occurring short-chain fatty acid, sodium butyrate, supports the extensive self-renewal of mouse and human ESCs, while promoting their convergence toward an intermediate stem cell state. In response to butyrate, human ESCs regress to an earlier developmental stage characterized by a gene exp ...[more]