A male-specific role for p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in germ cell sex differentiation in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1005-1014

  Ewen, Katherine ^a,b   Jackson, Andrew ^a   Wilhelm, Dagmar ^a   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Differentiation; Germ cell; Kinases; Meiosis; Mitotic arrest; p38 MAPK; Testis

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; CELL PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; MAX PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 5; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MYC PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN STRA8; PROTEIN SYCP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GONAD; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

MUS;

EID: 78649947486     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.086801     Document Type: Article

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