Defective folliculogenesis in female mice lacking Vaccinia-related kinase 1

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Jinkyung ^a   Choi, Yoon Ha ^a   Chang, Soeun ^a   Kim, Kyong Tai ^a   Je, Jung Ho ^a,b  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; VRK1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNCHROTRON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84871865507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00468     Document Type: Article

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