Characterization of the testis in congenitally ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase-1 (Uch-L1) defective (gad) mice

Experimental Animals

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Kwon, Jungkee ^a   Kikuchi, Tateki ^b   Setsuie, Rieko ^b   Ishii, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kyuwa, Shigeru ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gad mice; Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA); Seminiferous tubules; Testis; Ubiquitin carboxy terminal hydrolase 1 (Uch L1)

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CODE; GRACILE NUCLEUS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DISEASE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE;

EID: 0037676148     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.52.1     Document Type: Article

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