Analysis of germ cell nuclear factor transcripts and protein expression during spermatogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1620-1630

  Yang, Genyan ^a,b,d   Zhang, Yong Lian ^b   Buchold, Gregory M ^a   Jetten, Anton M ^c   O'Brien, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

GCNF; Gene regulation; Nuclear orphan receptor; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; GENE PRODUCT; GERM CELL NUCLEAR FACTOR; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN GCNF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; POLYRIBOSOMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0242584889     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.012013     Document Type: Article

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