Notch-1, c-kit and GFRα-1 are developmentally regulated markers for premeiotic germ cells

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 235-239

  Von Schonfeldt V ^a   Wistuba, J ^a   Schlatt, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR ALPHA1; MARKER; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL MATURATION; DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 3242769096     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078194     Document Type: Review

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