Analysis of SDF-1/CXCR4 signaling in primordial germ cell migration and survival or differentiation in Xenopus laevis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 146-158

  Takeuchi, Tomoyo ^a   Tanigawa, Yoko ^a   Minamide, Ryohei ^a   Ikenishi, Kohji ^a   Komiya, Tohru ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemokine; CXCR4; Germ cell migration; Knockdown; Microinjection; Morpholino oligo; SDF 1

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOKINE CXCL12; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CXCR4; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 73649107222     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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