Sequential activation of Notch family receptors during mouse spermatogenesis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-13

  Mori, Shintaro ^a,b,c   Kadokawa, Yuzo ^a   Hoshinaga, Kiyotaka ^a   Marunouchi, Tohru ^b  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hiratsuka City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Busulfan; Notch; Spermatids; Spermatocytes; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CARRIER PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; NOTCH3 RECEPTOR; NOTCH4 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; BUSULFAN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037304915     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2003.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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