Gone without the WNT: A requirement for WNT5A in germ cell migration: And testis development

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tevosian, Sergei G ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; WNT5A PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN, MOUSE;

CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DWARFISM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENITAL HYPOPLASIA; GENITAL MALFORMATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBINOW SYNDROME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERATOLOGY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; SEXUAL MATURATION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84856843987     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.096461     Document Type: Note

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