FGF9 suppresses meiosis and promotes male germ cell fate in mice

Developmental Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 440-449

  Bowles, Josephine ^a   Feng, Chun Wei ^a   Spiller, Cassy ^a   Davidson, Tara Lynne ^a   Jackson, Andrew ^a   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 26B1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP26B1; FGF9 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MESSENGER RNA; RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DETERMINATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; TRETINOIN;

EID: 77956578811     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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