Mass isolation of primordial germ cells from transgenic rainbow trout carrying the green fluorescent protein gene driven by the vasa gene promoter

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1087-1092

  Takeuchi, Yutaka ^a   Yoshizaki, Goro ^a   Kobayashi, Terumasa ^a   Takeuchi, Toshio ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Developmental biology; Early development; Gametogenesis; Gene regulation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LABELING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME MECHANISM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAMETE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAINBOW TROUT; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036785274     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod67.4.1087     Document Type: Article

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