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Role of leukemia inhibitory factor during mammalian development.
European cytokine network - 1 Dec 1996
Shellard J, Perreau J, Brûlet P
Abstract excerpt
Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is a cytokine that exhibits proliferative, survival and differentiation activities on a wide range of cell types. A role for LIF in embryonic development is suggested by: i) its ability to stimulate the proliferation of embryonic stem (ES) cells in vitro, while maintaining their totipotency and ii) by both its maternal and embryonic expression at the time of blastocyst...
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