Reduced vas deferens contraction and male infertility in mice lacking P2X1 receptors

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6765, 2000, Pages 86-89

  Mulryan, K ^a   Gitterman, D P ^a   Lewis, C J ^a   Vial, C ^a   Leckle, B J ^a   Cobb, A L ^a   Brown, J E ^a   Conley, E C ^a   Buell, G ^b,c   Pritchard, C A ^a   Evans, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c SERONO PHARMACEUTICAL RES INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, PURINERGIC P2; REPRODUCTION; SPERM COUNT; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0034610742     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/47495     Document Type: Article

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