Two-step consumption of yolk granules during the development of quail embryos

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-238

  Yoshizaki, Norio ^a   Soga, Marie ^a   Ito, Yasushi ^a   Kun, Ming Mao ^a   Sultana, Fowzia ^a   Yonezawa, Satoshi ^b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cathepsin D; Quail; Salt concentration; Yolk consumption; Yolk granule

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN D; LIPID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX JAPONICA; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERMIS; INCUBATION TIME; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; REACTION ANALYSIS; WEIGHT; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; COTURNIX; EGG PROTEINS; EGG YOLK; ENDODERM; ORGAN SIZE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALIA; COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3242672627     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2004.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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