Germ cell pluripotency, premature differentiation and susceptibility to testicular teratomas in mice

Development

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1577-1586

  Heaney, Jason D ^a,d   Anderson, Ericka L ^b   Michelson, Megan V ^a   Zechel, Jennifer L ^a   Conrad, Patricia A ^a   Page, David C ^b   Nadeau, Joseph H ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Germ cell; Mouse; Pluripotency; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC RISK; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS TERATOMA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYCLIN D1; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERM CELLS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

MUS;

EID: 84859327078     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.076851     Document Type: Article

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