Male differentiation of germ cells induced by embryonic age-specific sertoli cells in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ohta, Kohei ^a   Yamamoto, Miyuki ^a   Lin, Yanling ^a   Hogg, Nathanael ^a   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^b   Behringer, Richard R ^c   Yamazaki, Yukiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

De novo DNA methylation; Male germ cell differentiation; Primordial germ cells; Sertoli cells; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

DNMT3L METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NANOS2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNMT3A1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NANOS2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RETINOIC ACID; STRA8 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; GONAD; IN VIVO STUDY; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGONIUM; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MITOSIS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; SERTOLI CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84864070390     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.095943     Document Type: Article

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