Establishment and characterization of conditionally immortalized cells from the mouse urogenital ridge

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 899-909

  Capel, Blanche ^a,b   Hawkins, J R ^c   Hirst, Elizabeth ^a   Kioussis, Dimitris ^a   Lovell Badge, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immortalized cell; Primordial germ cell; Sry; T antigen mouse; Testis development

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; TRYPSIN; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONE CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TEMPERATURE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0029891497     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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