NOTCH signaling in Sertoli cells regulates gonocyte fate

Cell Cycle

Volumn 12, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2538-2545

  Garcia, Thomas Xavier ^a   Hofmann, Marie Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CCND1; Gonocyte; Mitotic arrest; NOTCH signaling; Sertoli cell; Testis development

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL FATE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MAMMAL CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROSPERMATOGONIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL; STEM CELL; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

CCND1; GONOCYTE; MITOTIC ARREST; NOTCH SIGNALING; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; SERTOLI CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 84883231263     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.25627     Document Type: Article

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