Pem homeobox gene promoter sequences that direct transcription in a Sertoli cell-specific, stage-specific, and androgen-dependent manner in the testis in vivo

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-233

  Rao, Manjeet K ^a   Wayne, Chad M ^a   Meistrich, Marvin L ^a   Wilkinson, Miles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEM HOMEOBOX; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

5' FLANKING REGION; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUTAMIDE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037315041     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2002-0232     Document Type: Article

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