Infertility associated with incomplete spermatogenic arrest and oligozoospermia in Egr4-deficient mice

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 5061-5071

  Tourtellotte, Warren G ^a   Nagarajan, Rakesh ^a   Auyeung, Anthony ^a   Mueller, Christina ^b   Milbrandt, Jeffrey ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Egr; Gene targeting; Infertility; Spermatogenesis; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PLOIDIES; SPERM MATURATION; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0033429895     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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