Germ Cell Differentiation and Synaptonemal Complex Formation Are Disrupted in CPEB Knockout Mice

Developmental Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 201-213

  Tay, Joyce ^a   Richter, Joel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION SPECIFICITY FACTOR; CPEB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AGE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NICK END LABELING; OVARY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, GENETIC; MRNA CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION FACTORS; OVARY; POLY A; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0035433727     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(01)00025-9     Document Type: Article

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