Expression patterns of Oct4, Cdx2, Tead4, and Yap1 proteins during blastocyst formation in embryos of the marsupial, monodelphis domestica wagner

Evolution and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 171-185

  Morrison, J T ^a,b   Bantilan, N S ^a,c   Wang, V N ^a,d   Nellett, K M ^a,e   Cruz, Y P ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDX 2 3 PROTEIN; CDX-2-3 PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

COALESCENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OPOSSUM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; TROPHOBLAST;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MONODELPHIS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TROPHOBLASTS;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 84876783919     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ede.12031     Document Type: Article

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