Expression of the c-kit gene is critical for migration of neonatal rat gonocytes in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 676-683

  Orth, Joanne M ^a   Qiu, Jianping ^a   Jester Jr , William F ^a   Pilder, Stephen ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOZOA; STEM CELL FACTOR; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 0030790352     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.3.676     Document Type: Article

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