Glutamine synthetase is essential in early mouse embryogenesis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 236, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1865-1875

  He, Youji ^a   Hakvoort, Theodoras B M ^a   Vermeulen, Jacqueline L M ^a   Lamers, Wouter H ^a   Van Roon, Maria A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Deletion; Embryonic lethal; Glutamine synthetase; Mouse

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEOMYCIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CELL SURVIVAL; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; CHIMERA; GENES, LETHAL; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

MUS;

EID: 34447562646     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21185     Document Type: Article

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