Restricted expression of WT1 messenger ribonucleic acid in immature ovarian follicles: Uniformity in mammalian and avian species and maintenance during reproductive senescence

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 365-373

  Chun, Sang Young ^a,f   McGee, Elizabeth A ^a   Hsu, Sheau Yu ^a   Minami, Sawako ^a   LaPolt, Philip S ^b,g   Yao, Humphrey Hung Chang ^c   Bahr, Janice M ^c   Gougeon, Alain ^d   Schomberg, David W ^e   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^g CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN; MESSENGER RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHICKENS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBINS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PEPTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WT1 PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0032919719     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.2.365     Document Type: Article

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