A DTC niche plexus surrounds the germline stem cell pool in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Byrd, Dana T ^a,b   Knobel, Karla ^a,c   Affeldt, Katharyn ^a   Crittenden, Sarah L ^a   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GLD-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL TIP CELL; GERM CELL; GERMLINE STEM CELL; MESENCHYME CELL; MITOSIS; MYRISTYLATION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL NICHE; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MITOSIS; STEM CELL NICHE;

EID: 84896759889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088372     Document Type: Article

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