Sohlh2 is a germ cell-specific bHLH transcription factor

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1014-1018

  Ballow, Daniel J ^a   Xin, Yun ^a   Choi, Youngsok ^a   Pangas, Stephanie A ^a   Rajkovic, Aleksandar ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bHLH; Germ cell specific; Oocyte; Oogenesis; Primordial follicle; Sohlh1; Sohlh2; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonia; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN SOHLH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; OVARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33748186965     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.modgep.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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