Tcp10 promoter-directed expression of the Nek2 gene in mouse meiotic spermatocytes

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-90

  Rhee, Kunsoo ^b   Wolgemuth, Debra J ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cell Cycle; Nek2; Spermatogenesis; Tcp10 promoter; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN NEK2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NEK2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PPP1R11 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; T COMPLEX PROTEINS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GIANT CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHIMERA; CYTOLOGY; DBA MOUSE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CHIMERA; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 0037186951     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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