ERM is required for transcriptional control of the spermatogonial stem cell niche

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7053, 2005, Pages 1030-1034

  Chen, Chen ^a   Ouyang, Wenjun ^b   Grigura, Vadim ^a   Zhou, Qing ^c   Carnes, Kay ^d   Lim, Hyunjung ^a   Zhao, Guang Quan ^e   Arber, Silvia ^f,g   Kurpios, Natasza ^h   Murphy, Theresa L ^a   Cheng, Alec M ^b   Hassell, John A ^h   Chandrashekar, Varadaraj ⁱ   Hofmann, Marie Claude ^j   Hess, Rex A ^d   Murphy, Kenneth M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^h MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES;

SPERMS; STEMS;

CELLS;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 23944483709     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03894     Document Type: Article

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