Mei-P26 regulates the maintenance of ovarian germline stem cells by promoting BMP signaling

Development

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1547-1556

  Li, Yun ^a   Maines, Jean Z ^a   Tastan, Ömür Y ^a   McKearin, Dennis M ^b   Buszczak, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Germline; Repression; Stem cells; Translation; Tumor

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN MEI P26; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAM GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICRORNAS; OVARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84859367743     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.077412     Document Type: Article

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