Expression of KIT in the ovary, and the role of somatic precursor cells

Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 131-184

  Merkwitz, Claudia ^a   Lochhead, Paul ^b   Tsikolia, Nika ^c   Koch, Daniela ^a   Sygnecka, Katja ^d   Sakurai, Michiharu ^e   Spanel Borowski, Katharina ^a   Ricken, Albert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Rudolf Boehm Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; CD135 ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN SH2; STEM CELL FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELL; GLYCOSYLATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C KIT; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVULATION; PIGMENTATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL; STEROIDOGENESIS; THECA CELL; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HUMANS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; OVARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

EID: 82455172033     PISSN: 00796336     EISSN: 18732186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proghi.2011.09.001     Document Type: Review

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