Mouse germ cell development: From specification to sex determination

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 323, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-93

  Ewen, Katherine A ^a,b,c   Koopman, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Australian Government Australian Research Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Epigenetics; Germ cell; Gonad; Meiosis; Migration; Mitotic arrest; Proliferation; Specification

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GROWTH FACTOR; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; NANOS3 PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHASE TRANSITION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL MOVEMENT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GONADS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MITOSIS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EID: 77952884647     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.12.013     Document Type: Review

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