Boar proacrosin expressed in spermatids of transgenic mice does not reach the acrosome and disrupts spermatogenesis

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 236-247

  O'Brien, Deborah A ^a   Welch, Jeffrey E ^b   Goulding, Eugenia H ^b   Taylor Jr , Arles A ^a,b   Baba, Tadashi ^c   Hecht, Norman B ^d   Eddy, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosomal targeting; Infertility; Proacrosin; Spermatogenesis; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

PROACROSIN;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACROSIN; ACROSOME; ANIMALS; ENZYME PRECURSORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0030048159     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2795(199602)43:2<236::aid-mrd13>3.0.co;2-1     Document Type: Article

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