Transcriptional/translational regulation of mammalian spermatogenic stem cells

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 786, Issue , 2013, Pages 105-128

  Hogarth, Cathryn A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ cell niche; miRNA; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonial stem cells; Testis

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 2; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 3; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MICRORNA; NEUROGENIN 3; PROTEIN BCL 6; PROTEIN BMP8; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TSPAN8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GFRALPHA1 GENE; HUMAN; ID4 GENE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE FERTILITY; NANOS2 GENE; NANOS3 GENE; NEUROGENIN 3 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGENIC STEM CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL NICHE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ZBTB16 GENE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTE; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MAMMALS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84934443470     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-7-6621-1_7     Document Type: Article

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