Gene expression profiling during cellular differentiation in the embryonic pituitary gland using cDNA microarrays

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 414-425

  Ellestad, Laura E ^a   Carre, Wilfrid ^b   Muchow, Michael ^a   Jenkins, Sultan A ^a   Wang, Xiaofei ^b   Cogburn, Larry A ^b   Porter, Tom E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo; Prolactin; Somatotropin; Thyrotropin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH HORMONE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROLACTIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646892603     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00248.2005     Document Type: Article

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