Increased Luminal pH in the Epididymis of Infertile c-ros Knockout Mice and the Expression of Sodium-Hydrogen Exchangers and Vacuolar Proton Pump H +-ATPase

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-168

  Yeung, Ching Hei ^a,e   Breton, Sylvie ^b   Setiawan, Iwan ^c,d   Xu, Yaoxian ^a   Lang, Florian ^c   Cooper, Trevor G ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d PADJADJARAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epididymal fluid; Gene chip; Infertility; PH regulation; Sperm maturation

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTON PUMP; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN 2; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; ION EXCHANGE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EPIDIDYMIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SODIUM-HYDROGEN ANTIPORTER; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 2342628669     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20067     Document Type: Article

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