Self-maintained escort cells form a germline stem cell differentiation niche

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5087-5097

  Kirilly, Daniel ^a,b,c   Wang, Su ^a,b   Xie, Ting ^a,b  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Drosophila; Escort cell; Germline stem cell; Niche

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RHO FACTOR; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOBLAST; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESCORT STEM CELL; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GERMARIUM; GERMLINE STEM CELL; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SELF MAINTAINED ESCORT CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; TURNOVER TIME; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OVARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 80755184861     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.067850     Document Type: Article

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