Mammalian ovary differentiation - A focus on female meiosis

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 356, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 13-23

  Baillet, Adrienne ^a   Mandon Pepin, Béatrice ^b,c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

Author keywords

Development; Meiosis; Ovary; Prophase I; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

CYP26B1 PROTEIN; DAZL PROTEIN; DICER; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; HORMAD 1 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MILI PROTEIN; NANOS 2 PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VACCINIA RELATED KINASE 1;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERMINAL GRANULE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MEIOSIS; MEIOSIS 1; MEIOSIS 2; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; OVARY; TESTIS;

EID: 84859627552     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.09.029     Document Type: Review

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