Apoptosis in male germ cells in response to cyclin A1-deficiency and cell cycle arrest

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1571-1579

  Salazar, Glicella ^a   Liu, Dong ^b   Liao, Ching ^c   Batkiewicz, Leah ^a   Arbing, Rachel ^a   Chung, Sanny S W ^a   Lele, Karen ^a   Wolgemuth, Debra J ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Akt; Ataxia telangiectasia mutant; Atm; Ccna; Cdk; Cyclin A gene; Cyclin dependent kinase; FADD; Fas ligand; FasL; FKHRL1; Forkhead like transcription factor; Maturation (or mitosis) promoting factor; MPF; Protein kinase B; Terminal dUTP nick end labeling; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN A; CYCLIN A1; MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CCNA1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ALLELIC IMBALANCE; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; GERM CELL; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CYCLIN A; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0642283962     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(03)00513-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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