Lunatic fringe null female mice are infertile due to defects in meiotic maturation

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 817-828

  Hahn, Katherine L ^a,b   Johnson, Joshua ^a,c   Beres, Brian J ^a,b   Howard, Sheena ^a,b   Wilson Rawls, Jeanne ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Follicle; Lunatic fringe; Meiosis; Notch; Ovary

Indexed keywords

LUNATIC FRINGE PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RADICAL FRINGE PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GRANULOSA CELLS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 14844364251     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01601     Document Type: Article

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