Stage-specific regulatory element of mouse Sry gene

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 389-396

  Yokouchi, Kou ^a   Ito, Masanori ^a   Nishino, Koichiro ^a   Yamanouchi, Keitaro ^a   Naito, Kunihiko ^a   Suzawa, Miyuki ^b   Kato, Shigeaki ^b   Hakamata, Yoji ^c   Endo, Hitoshi ^c   Tojo, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

EMSA; Footprinting; HS site; Sry 5 region

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SRY GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, SRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037376170     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10278     Document Type: Article

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