The niche-dependent feedback loop generates a BMP activity gradient to determine the germline stem cell fate

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 515-521

  Xia, Laixin ^a   Zheng, Xiudeng ^a   Zheng, Wenjing ^a   Zhang, Guoqiang ^a   Wang, Hailong ^a   Tao, Yi ^a   Chen, Dahua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FUSED PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TKV PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OVUM; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84862788413     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.056     Document Type: Article

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