Microgravity promotes differentiation and meiotic entry of postnatal mouse male germ cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Pellegrini, Manuela ^a   Di Siena, Sara ^a   Claps, Giuseppina ^a   Di Cesare, Silvia ^a   Dolci, Susanna ^a   Rossi, Pellegrino ^a   Geremia, Raffaele ^a   Grimaldi, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX 3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; PROTEIN KINASE B; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GERM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROGRAVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROPHASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOCYTE; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MAMMALIA;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGONIA; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 77949357040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009064     Document Type: Article

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