Aristaless Related Homeobox Gene, Arx, Is Implicated in Mouse Fetal Leydig Cell Differentiation Possibly through Expressing in the Progenitor Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Miyabayashi, Kanako ^a   Katoh Fukui, Yuko ^b   Ogawa, Hidesato ^c   Baba, Takashi ^a   Shima, Yuichi ^a   Sugiyama, Noriyuki ^d   Kitamura, Kunio ^e   Morohashi, Ken ichirou ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARX GENE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETAL STEM CELL; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MESONEPHROS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TESTIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; FETUS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MESONEPHROS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEM CELLS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 84879530571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068050     Document Type: Article

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