The role of interleukin-4 in the regulation of mouse primordial germ cell numbers

Developmental Biology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-21

  Cooke, Julie E ^a,b   Heasman, Janet ^a,c   Wylie, Chris C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029981875     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0047     Document Type: Article

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