Repressive translational control in germ cells

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 665-676

  Lai, Fangfang ^a   King, Mary Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; CYCLIN B; FEM 3 PROTEIN; HEAD INVOLUTION DEFECTIVE PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 4F; INITIATION FACTOR 4G; MICRORNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PUMILIO PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOMA; CELL DIVISION; CNIDARIA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GERM CELL; GERM LAYER; NONHUMAN; POLAR BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; XENOPUS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84881547361     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22161     Document Type: Article

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