PAR6, a potential marker for the germ cells selected to form primordial follicles in mouse ovary

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Wen, Jing ^a   Zhang, Hua ^a   Li, Ge ^a   Mao, Guanping ^a   Chen, Xiufen ^a   Wang, Jianwei ^a   Guo, Meng ^a   Mu, Xinyi ^a   Ouyang, Hong ^a   Zhang, Meijia ^a   Xia, Guoliang ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CELL PROTEIN; PARTITIONING DEFECTIVE PROTEIN 6; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PAR6 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FETUS; GAP JUNCTION; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTCOITAL TEST; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL JUNCTION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350218604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007372     Document Type: Article

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