The mammalian germline as a pluripotency cycle

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2495-2501

  Leitch, Harry G ^a   Smith, Austin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Embryonic germ cells; Embryonic stem cells; Germline; Pluripotency; Primordial germ cells

Indexed keywords

LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FATE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; GERM LINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OOCYTE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOCARCINOMA; X CHROMOSOME;

DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC GERM CELLS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GERMLINE; PLURIPOTENCY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELLS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM LAYERS; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; OVUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84878317739     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.091603     Document Type: Article

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