Control of KIT signalling in male germ cells: What can we learn from other systems?

Reproduction

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 743-757

  Mithraprabhu, Sridurga ^a   Loveland, Kate L ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian Government Australian Research Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; CYCLINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; JANUS KINASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C GAMMA; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN MYB; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RETINOL; STAT PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALLELE; CELL ADHESION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; DOWN REGULATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENZYME REGULATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELL; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; STEM CELL FACTOR;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70449464598     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0537     Document Type: Review

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