BMP signals and the transcriptional repressor BLIMP1 during germline segregation in the mammalian embryo

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 209-223

  Hopf, Clas ^a   Viebahn, Christoph ^a   Püschel, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastrulation; PRDM1; Primordial germ cell niche; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; GASTRULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, INBRED STRAINS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; NEURULATION; RABBITS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84655161541     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: 1432041X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-011-0373-5     Document Type: Article

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