Rac mediates mouse spermatogonial stem cell homing to germline niches by regulating transmigration through the blood-testis barrier

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 463-475

  Takashima, Seiji ^a   Kanatsu Shinohara, Mito ^a   Tanaka, Takashi ^a   Takehashi, Masanori ^a,c   Morimoto, Hiroko ^a   Shinohara, Takashi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA OHTANI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; RAC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL HOMING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEUROPEPTIDES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TRANSENDOTHELIAL AND TRANSEPITHELIAL MIGRATION;

EID: 80755156308     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: 18759777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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