Oogenesin Is a Novel Mouse Protein Expressed in Oocytes and Early Cleavage-Stage Embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1736-1742

  Minami, Naojiro ^a   Aizawa, Akira ^b   Ihara, Ryo ^a   Miyamoto, Masakazu ^a   Ohashi, Akihiro ^a   Imai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Livestock Improvement Association of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Early development; Embryo; Gametogenesis; Gene regulation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; LEUCINE; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OOGENESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA ISOLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242330311     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.018051     Document Type: Article

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