Tert expression and telomerase activity in gonads and somatic cells of the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 131-141

  Pfennig, Frank ^a   Kind, Barbara ^a   Zieschang, Freia ^a   Busch, Matthias ^a   Gutzeit, Herwig O ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisense transcript; Oryzias latipes; Telomerase; Telomerase reverse transcriptase; Telomeric amplification protocol (TRAP)

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GONAD; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL; TESTIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORYZIAS; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TELOMERASE; TESTIS;

ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 40449103771     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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