Adult Apaf-1-deficient mice exhibit male infertility

Developmental Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 248-258

  Honarpour, Narimon ^a   Du, Chunying ^a   Richardson, James A ^a   Hammer, Robert E ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^a   Herz, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase; Cell death; Cytochrome c; Male infertility; Mouse; Neuron

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034652010     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9585     Document Type: Article

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