Transferrin overexpression alters testicular function in aged mice

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-206

  Lecureuil C ^a   Staub, C ^b   Fouchecourt S ^a   Maurel, M C ^a   Fontaine, I ^a   Martinat, N ^a   Gauthier, C ^a   Daudignon, A ^c   Delaleu, B ^a   Sow, A ^a   Jegou B ^b   Guillou, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE VALENCIENNES   (France)

Author keywords

Male sexual function; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFERRIN;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIGATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETE TESTIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PITUITARY GLAND; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFERRIN;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33845996953     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20523     Document Type: Article

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