Differential expression of the Oct-4 transcription factor during mouse germ cell differentiation

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 89-98

  Pesce, Maurizio ^a   Wang, Xiangyuan ^b   Wolgemuth, Debra J ^b   Schöler, Hans R ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b Dept of Genet and Devmt 630 W ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Germ cells; Meiosis; Mouse gonad; Oct 4; Oogenesis; Primordial germ cells; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; SPERMATOGONIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032008045     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00002-1     Document Type: Article

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