Overexpression of c-myc induces apoptosis at the prophase of meiosis of rat primary spermatocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 403-410

  Kodaira, Kunihiko ^a,c   Takahashi, Ri Ichi ^a   Hirabayashi, Masumi ^a   Suzuki, Takashige ^a   Obinata, Masuo ^b   Ueda, Masatsugu ^a  

^a YS New Technology Institute Inc   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YS New Technology Institute Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; c myc; Testis; Transgenic Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; METALLOTHIONEIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROPHASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WT1 PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029989872     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199612)45:4<403::AID-MRD1>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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