Alpha-fetoprotein, the major fetal serum protein, is not essential for embryonic development but is required for female fertility

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 99, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 12865-12870

  Gabant, Philippe ^a   Forrester, Lesley ^b,e   Nichols, Jennifer ^b   Van Reeth, Thierry ^a   De Mees, Christelle ^a   Pajack, Bernard ^a   Watt, Alistair ^b   Smitz, Johan ^d   Alexandre, Henri ^c   Szpirer, Claude ^a   Szpirer, Josiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Centre for Genome Research   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ALLELES; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036789951     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.202215399     Document Type: Article

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