Three-Dimensional Imaging of Prox1-EGFP Transgenic Mouse Gonads Reveals Divergent Modes of Lymphangiogenesis in the Testis and Ovary

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Svingen, Terje ^a   François, Mathias ^a   Wilhelm, Dagmar ^a,b   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OVARIAN LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; OVARY FOLLICLE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROX1 GENE; REPORTER GENE; TESTICULAR LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84871460369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052620     Document Type: Article

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