Functional analysis of the p53 gene in apoptosis induced by heat stress or loss of stem cell factor signaling in mouse male germ cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2249-2254

  Hiroshi, Ohta ^a   Shinichi, Aizawa ^b,c   Yoshitake, Nishimune ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYPTORCHISM; GENE; GERM CELL; HEAT STRESS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CRYPTORCHIDISM; GENES, P53; GERM CELLS; HEAT; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL FACTOR; STRESS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038513390     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.014779     Document Type: Article

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