MicroRNA-21 regulates the self-renewal of mouse spermatogonial stem cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12740-12745

  Niu, Zhiyv ^a   Goodyear, Shaun M ^a   Rao, Shilpa ^a   Wu, Xin ^a   Tobias, John W ^a   Avarbock, Mary R ^a   Brinster, Ralph L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Male germline stem cells; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MICRORNA 21; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 6; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CLONING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL; STEM CELL; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, THY-1; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRORNAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79961219742     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109987108     Document Type: Article

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