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Oct-4 Transcription Factor Is Differentially Expressed in the Mouse Embryo during Establishment of the First Two Extraembryonic Cell Lineages Involved in Implantation

1994 • 623 citations

Essential role of Mash-2 in extraembryonic development

1994 • 612 citations

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Male-to-Female Sex Reversal in Mice Lacking Fibroblast Growth Factor 9

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Clonal Analysis of the Origin of Primordial Germ Cells in the Mouse

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FIGα, a germ cell-specific transcription factor required for ovarian follicle formation

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Parthenogenetic activation of oocytes in c-mos-deficient mice

1994 • 433 citations

Synaptonemal complex proteins: occurrence, epitope mapping and chromosome disjunction

1994 • 386 citations

Entry of Mouse Embryonic Germ Cells into Meiosis

1997 • 347 citations

The onset of germ cell migration in the mouse embryo

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FIGα, a germ cell specific transcription factor involved in the coordinate expression of the zona pellucida genes

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Coordinate expression of the three zona pellucida genes during mouse oogenesis

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Abnormal zonae pellucidae in mice lacking ZP1 result in early embryonic loss

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Oct-4: Control of totipotency and germline determination

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In line with our ancestors: Oct-4 and the mammalian germ

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Comparative analysis of human, bovine, and murine Oct-4 upstream promoter sequences

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Cytokeratin filament assembly in the preimplantation mouse embryo

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Nuclear Receptor Steroidogenic Factor 1 Directs Embryonic Stem Cells toward the Steroidogenic Lineage

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Revelations of ovarian follicle biology from gene knockout mice

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Progressive expression of trophoblast‐specific genes during formation of mouse trophoblast giant cells in vitro

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Testicular cells lysostripped of H-Y antigen organize ovarian follicle-like aggregates

1978 • 103 citations

Cellular and Molecular Pathways Regulating Mammalian Sex Determination

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Monoclonal antibodies to the major protein of the murine zona pellucida: Effects on fertilization and early development

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