Heat Shock Transcription Factor 1 Is Involved in Quality-Control Mechanisms in Male Germ Cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-24

  Izu, Hanae ^a   Inouye, Sachiye ^a   Fujimoto, Mitsuaki ^a   Shiraishi, Koji ^a   Naito, Katsusuke ^a   Nakai, Akira ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Signal transduction; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Stress; Testis

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CRYPTORCHISM; EMBRYO; GENE; HYPERTHERMIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STRESS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0347355100     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.020065     Document Type: Article

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