Differentiating germ cells can revert into functional stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster ovaries

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6982, 2004, Pages 564-569

  Kai, Toside ^a   Spradling, Allan ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MICROORGANISMS; TISSUE;

DROSOPHILA; TISSUE STEM CELLS;

CELLS;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FERTILITY; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; OOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FALLOPIA; MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; LARVA; OVARY; OVUM; STEM CELLS;

EID: 1842432407     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02436     Document Type: Article

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