Male mice deficient for germ-cell cyritestin are infertile

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1445-1451

  Shamsadin, Rahman ^a   Adham, Ibrahim M ^a   Nayernia, Karim ^a   Heinlein, Uwe A O ^b   Oberwinkler, Heike ^a   Engel, Wolfgang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Institute of Human Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINTEGRIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELL; INFERTILITY; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032710099     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.6.1445     Document Type: Article

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