Key apoptotic pathways for heat-induced programmed germ cell death in the testis

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3167-3175

  Sinha Hikim, Amiya P ^a   Lue, Yanhe ^a   Yamamoto, Cindy M ^a   Vera, Yanira ^a   Rodriguez, Susana ^a   Yen, Pauline H ^a   Soeng, Kevin ^a   Wang, Christina ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 10; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASE INHIBITOR; FAS LIGAND; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FRACTIONATION; GERM CELL; HEAT TOLERANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOSOL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; HEAT; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS;

EID: 0037972891     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0175     Document Type: Article

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