Epigenetic status determines germ cell meiotic commitment in embryonic and postnatal mammalian gonads

Cell Cycle

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 339-349

  Wang, Ning ^a   Tilly, Jonathan L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Germ cell; Histone deacetylase; Meiosis; Oogenesis; Ovary; Retinoic acid; Spermatogenesis; Stra8; Testis

Indexed keywords

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOL; TRICHOSTATIN A; VORINOSTAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GONAD; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; STIMULATED BY RETINOIC ACID GENE 8;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 74949105085     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.9.2.10447     Document Type: Article

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