Analysis of hypomorphic KitlSI mutants suggests different requirements for KITL in proliferation and migration of mouse primordial germ cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 639-647

  Zama, Aparna Mahakali ^a,b   Hudson III, F Parker ^a,c   Bedell, Mary A ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Embryo; Gametogenesis

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GAMETOGENESIS; GASTRULATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; OVARY; OVUM; SPERMATOZOA; STEM CELL FACTOR; TESTIS;

EID: 25144507493     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.042846     Document Type: Article

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