Expression of a fluorescent recombinant form of sperm protein phospholipase C zeta in mouse epididymal sperm by in vivo gene transfer into the testis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 1281-1289

  Coward, Kevin ^a   Kubota, Hiroki ^a,b   Hibbitt, Olivia ^a   McIlhinney, Jeff ^a   Kohri, Kenjiro ^b   Parrington, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

electroporation; fluorescent protein; gene transfer; phospholipase C zeta; sperm; Testis

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHOLIPASE C ZETA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; ELECTROPORATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY; LIGHT; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MIDPIECE; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPORATION; EPIDIDYMAL SECRETORY PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33644849262     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.12.012     Document Type: Article

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