Nodal signaling regulates the entry into meiosis in fetal germ cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2466-2473

  Souquet, Benoit ^a,b   Tourpin, Sophie ^a,b   Messiaen, Sébastien ^a,b   Moison, Delphine ^a,b   Habert, René ^a,b   Livera, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Universite Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; NODAL SIGNALING PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ACVR2A GENE; ACVR2B GENE; ALK4 GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL CULTURE; CELL MATURATION; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP26B1 GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FETUS CELL; FGF9 GENR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GERM CELL; GONAD; LEFTY1 GENE; LEFTY2 GENE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; RECEPTOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TDGF1 GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; NODAL PROTEIN; OOGENESIS; OOGONIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA;

EID: 84860342049     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-2056     Document Type: Article

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