Ovarian development in mice requires the GATA4-FOG2 transcription complex

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3731-3743

  Manuylov, Nikolay L ^a   Smagulova, Fatima O ^a,b   Leach, Lyndsay ^a   Tevosian, Sergei G ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Dkk1; Fog2 (Zfpm2); Gata4; Mouse; Ovary

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOG2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; ZFPM2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 59149105257     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.024653     Document Type: Article

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