Structural components of the nonstriated contractile apparatuses in the Caenorhabditis elegans gonadal myoepithelial sheath and their essential roles for ovulation

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 236, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1093-1105

  Ono, Kanako ^a   Yu, Robinson ^a   Ono, Shoichiro ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Contraction; Integrin; Muscle; Myofibrils; Myosin; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

INTEGRIN; PERLECAN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DENSE BODY; GONAD; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MYOEPITHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GONADS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; OVULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 34247343331     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21091     Document Type: Article

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