Defining the neighborhoods that escort the oocyte through its early life events and into a functional follicle

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 960-976

  Jorgensen, Joan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CHEMOKINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT3 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GONAD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CDH1 PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; MICE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84890425823     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22232     Document Type: Article

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