A receptor tyrosine kinase, Sky, and its ligand Gas 6 are expressed in gonads and support primordial germ cell growth or survival in culture

Developmental Biology

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 499-510

  Matsubara, Nobumichi ^a   Takahashi, Yoshihiko ^a   Nishina, Yukio ^b   Mukouyama, Yousuke ^c   Yanagisawa, Masahiro ^a   Watanabe, Toshio ^c   Nakano, Toru ^d   Nomura, Koji ^d   Arita, Hitoshi ^d   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^b   Obinata, Masuo ^a   Matsui, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d SHIONOGI AND CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GONAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030589603     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0323     Document Type: Article

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