A trial for induction of supernumerary primordial germ cells in Xenopus tadpoles by injecting RNA of Xenopus vasa homologue into germline cells of 32-cell embryos

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 417-426

  Ikenishi, Kohji ^a   Yamakita, Shinya ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ plasm bearing cells; Overexpression; Presumptive primordial germ cells; Supernumerary primordial germ cells; Xenopus vasa homologue

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOPUS VASA LIKE GENE 1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GERMPLASM; INJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL; STAINING; TADPOLE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GERM CELLS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346688586     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2003.00708.x     Document Type: Article

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