Expression profiling of purified male germ cells: Stage-specific expression patterns related to meiosis and postmeiotic development

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-85

  Pang, Alan L Y ^a   Johnson, Warren ^a   Ravindranath, Neelakanta ^a   Dym, Martin ^b   Rennert, Owen M ^a   Chan, Wai Yee ^a,b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Gamete biology; Gametogenesis; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; DYNAMICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HAPLOIDY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGONIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645785838     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00215.2004     Document Type: Article

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