Direct effects of retinoic acid on entry of fetal male germ cells into meiosis in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1056-1063

  Ohta, Kohei ^a,b   Lin, Yanling ^a   Hogg, Nathanael ^a   Yamamoto, Miyuki ^a   Yamazaki, Yukiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal male germ cells; Meiosis; Mitotic arrest; Retinoic acid; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN STRA8; RETINOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNMT3L GENE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRA8 GENE; SYCP3 GENE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SPERMATOZOA; TRETINOIN;

MUS;

EID: 78649971645     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085787     Document Type: Article

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