The pro-apoptotic gene Bax is required for the death of ectopic primordial germ cells during their imigration in the mouse embryo

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 6589-6597

  Stallock, James ^a   Molyneaux, Kathy ^a   Schaible, Kyle ^a   Knudson, C Michael ^b   Wylie, Christopher ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bax; Cell death; Mouse; Primordial germ cells

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; STEEL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GERM LINE; GONAD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL DEATH; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CHORISTOMA; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OVUM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0347765647     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00898     Document Type: Article

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