Oogenesis: Transcriptional regulators and mouse models

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 356, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 31-39

  Jagarlamudi, Krishna ^a   Rajkovic, Aleksandar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ line; Oogenesis; Ovarian insufficiency and infertility; Ovulation; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PRDM14 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; SOHLH1 PROTEIN; SOHLH2 PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EMX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXL2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NOBOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAF4B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZFX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZFPM2 PROTEIN;

CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84859632100     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.07.049     Document Type: Review

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