Knockout mouse models of sperm flagellum anomalies

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 449-461

  Escalier, Denise ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'Histologie   (France)

Author keywords

Axoneme; Flagella; Knockout mice; Mutant mice; Spermatogenesis; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

1 ALKYL 2 ACETYLGLYCEROPHOSPHOCHOLINE ESTERASE; ANION CHANNEL; ATP BINDING PROTEIN 1; BINDING PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE LAMBDA; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; KERATIN; KERATIN 9; MOLECULAR MOTOR; NECTIN 2; PARKIN; PROTEIN AKAP4; PROTEIN IFT 88; SELENOPROTEIN P; SELENOPROTEIN P 1; SEPTIN; SEPTIN 4; SPERM ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 16; SPERM ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 6; TEKTIN T; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR JUND1; TUBULIN POLYGLUTAMYLASE; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

APOPTOSIS; AXONEME; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSANGUINITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MCKUSICK KAUFMAN SYNDROME; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 33745272289     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dml013     Document Type: Review

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