oct4-EGFP reporter gene expression marks the stem cells in embryonic development and in adult gonads of transgenic medaka

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-58

  Froschauer, Alexander ^a   Khatun, Mst Muslima ^a   Sprott, David ^a   Franz, Alexander ^a   Rieger, Christiane ^a   Pfennig, Frank ^a   Gutzeit, Herwig O ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4;

ADULT STEM CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GONAD; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TELEOST; TESTIS CELL; TETRAPOD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, REPORTER; GONADS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; ORYZIAS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STEM CELLS;

MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872596351     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22135     Document Type: Article

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