What leads from dead-end?

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1317-1322

  Matin, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dead end; Dnd1; Ter; Testicular germ cell tumors

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL TUMOR; DEAD END 1 GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE STERILITY; MOUSE STRAIN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; SHORT SURVEY; TER GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

MUS;

EID: 34249989347     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-007-6433-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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