The fused toes locus is essential for somatic-germ cell interactions that foster germ cell maturation in developing gonads in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1024-1032

  Kim, Bongki ^a,b,d   Kim, Youngha ^b   Cooke, Paul S ^a,e   Rüther, Ulrich ^c   Jorgensen, Joan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Developmental biology; Fused toes; Germ cell; Granulosa cells; Irx; Ovary; Sertoli cells; Somatic cell; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME 8; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FT GENE; FTM GENE; FTO GENE; FTS GENE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GRANULOSA CELL; IRX3 GENE; IRX5 GENE; IRX6 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GONADS; GRANULOSA CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, NUDE; RODENT DISEASES; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MYOIDA;

EID: 79956283589     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.088559     Document Type: Article

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