Specific arrest of spermatogenesis caused by apoptotic cell death in transgenic mice

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1077-1086

  Suzuki, Misao ^a,b   Abe, Koichiro ^b   Yoshinaga, Kazuya ^b   Obinata, Masuo ^c   Furusawa, Mitsuru ^a,d   Abe, Kuniya ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLOTHIONEIN; MYC PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; INFERTILITY; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030334815     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.d01-228.x     Document Type: Article

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