Inhibition of testicular germ cell apoptosis and differentiation in mice misexpressing Bcl-2 in spermatogonia

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1703-1709

  Furuchi, Takemitsu ^a   Masuko, Kazue ^a   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^b   Obinata, Masuo ^a   Matsui, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonia; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030003958     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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