Molecular markers for the assessment of postnatal male germ cell development in the mouse

Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 108-116

  Jarvis, Sheba ^a   Elliott, David J ^b   Morgan, Delyth ^a   Winston, Robert ^a   Readhead, Carol ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

GATA 1; Gonocytes; Mouse spermatogenesis; Proliferating cell nuclear antigen; RNA binding motif

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; MOLECULAR MARKER; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 12444331010     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh565     Document Type: Article

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