FIGα, a germ cell-specific transcription factor required for ovarian follicle formation

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 4645-4654

  Soyal, S M ^a   Amleh, A ^a   Dean, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha (FIG ); Factor in the germline; Germ line transcription factor; Primordial follicles

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FIGALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FIGLA PROTEIN, MOUSE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH CURVE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERIODICITY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STEM CELL; AGING; ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; NEWBORN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033623183     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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