Cell hierarchy and lineage commitment in the bovine mammary gland

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rauner, Gat ^a,b   Barash, Itamar ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; CD24 ANTIGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; JAGGED1; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURFACE; COLONY FORMING CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMARY GLAND; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CLONE; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; UDDER;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD24; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATTLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COUNT; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONE CELLS; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHA6; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84855838140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030113     Document Type: Article

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