Mouse germ cell development during embryogenesis

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 337-341

  Saga, Yumiko ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1;

CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; GONAD; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 53449084477     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.06.003     Document Type: Review

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