The testicular fatty acid binding protein PERF15 regulates the fate of germ cells in PERF15 transgenic mice

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-24

  Kido, Tatsuo ^a,b   Arata, Satoru ^c   Suzuki, Ryusuke ^a,d   Hosono, Tomohiko ^c   Nakanishi, Yoshinobu ^e   Miyazaki, Jun Icni ^f   Saito, Izumu ^g   Kuroki, Toshio ^c,h   Shioda, Seiji ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cre LoxP system; Fatty acid binding protein; Germ cell death; PERF15; Testis

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN PERF15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRE GENE; FABP GENE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PGK2 GENE; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; FERTILITY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTEGRASES; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 13544268500     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169x.2004.00775.x     Document Type: Article

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