SALL4 Expression in Gonocytes and Spermatogonial Clones of Postnatal Mouse Testes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gassei, Kathrin ^a   Orwig, Kyle E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SALL4A; PROTEIN SALL4B; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL CLONING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE LOCATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; MALE; MICE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 84872248083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053976     Document Type: Article

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