Failure to assemble the peri-nuclear structures in GOPC deficient spermatids as found in round-headed spermatozoa

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 349-360

  Ito, Chizuru ^a   Suzuki Toyota, Fumie ^a   Maekawa, Mamiko ^a   Toyama, Yoshiro ^a   Yao, Ryoji ^b   Noda, Tetsuo ^b   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GLOBOZOOSPERMIA; GOPC GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; KINETICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERIODIC ACID-SCHIFF REACTION; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 13444252577     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.67.349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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