Bmi1 expression in long-term germ stem cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Komai, Yoshihiro ^a   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^a   Tokuyama, Yoko ^a   Yanai, Hirotsugu ^a   Ohe, Shuichi ^a   Omachi, Taichi ^a   Atsumi, Naho ^a   Yoshida, Naoko ^a   Kumano, Keiki ^a   Hisha, Hiroko ^a   Matsuda, Tadashi ^a   Ueno, Hiroo ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; BMI1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GFRA1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; ONCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REGENERATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELLS; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REGENERATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84906673386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06175     Document Type: Article

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