LIN28 is selectively expressed by primordial and pre-meiotic germ cells in the human fetal ovary

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2343-2349

  Childs, Andrew J ^a   Kinnell, Hazel L ^a   He, Jing ^a   Anderson, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; SYCP3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LIN28; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; OVARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 84861512230     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: 15578534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2011.0730     Document Type: Article

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