The control of cell cycle in mouse primordial germ cells: Old and new players

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 233-244

  de Felici, Massimo ^a   Farini, Donatella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Embryonic germ cells; Gametogenesis; Meiosis; Primordial germ cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DICER; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC PROTEIN 6; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; ONCOSTATIN M; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE PIN1; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; SMAD PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TAU PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; WNT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SYNTHESIS; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GERM CELL TUMOR; GERM LINE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MEIOSIS; MELANOCYTE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELL; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MITOSIS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84856492280     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161212799040448     Document Type: Review

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