The ter mutation responsible for germ cell deficiency but not testicular nor ovarian teratocarcinogenesis in ter/ter congenic mice

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-69

  Noguchi, Motoko ^a   Watanabe, Chiaki ^a   Kobayashi, Takashi ^a   Kuwashima, Miho ^a   Sakurai, Takayuki ^a   Katoh, Hideki ^b   Moriwaki, Kazuo ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

germ cell deficiency; primordial germ cells; ter congenic mouse; teratoma (ter) mutation; testicular and ovarian teratomas

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY TERATOMA; TERATOGENESIS; TESTIS TERATOMA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030068791     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1996.00008.x     Document Type: Article

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