HMG-CoA reductase guides migrating primordial germ cells

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6710, 1998, Pages 466-469

  Van Doren, Mark ^a   Broihier, Heather Tarczy ^a   Moore, Lisa A ^a   Lehmann, Ruth ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; MESODERM; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032480975     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24871     Document Type: Article

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