Transient development of ovotestes in XX Sox9 transgenic mice

Developmental Biology

Volumn 349, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-77

  Gregoire, Elodie P ^a,b   Lavery, Rowena ^a,b   Chassot, Anne Amandine ^a,b   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^c   Treier, Mathias ^d   Behringer, Richard R ^e   Chaboissier, Marie Christine ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ cells; Mouse models; Ovotestis; Regulation; Sex reversal; Sox9

Indexed keywords

TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; WT1 PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGONIUM; XX MALE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 78649450062     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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