A unique combination of male germ cell mirnas coordinates gonocyte differentiation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  McIver, Skye C ^a   Stanger, Simone J ^a   Santarelli, Danielle M ^b   Roman, Shaun D ^a   Nixon, Brett ^a   McLaughlin, Eileen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D1; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 136; MICRORNA 290 5P; MICRORNA 291A 5P; MICRORNA 293; MICRORNA 294; MICRORNA 463; MICRORNA 743A; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; CCND1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PTEN PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GERM CELL; GONOCYTE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; CYCLIN D1; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84859982554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035553     Document Type: Article

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