Embryonic pathogenesis of hypogonadism and renal hypoplasia in hgn/hgn rats characterized by male sterility, reduced female fertility and progressive renal insufficiency

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-44

  Suzuki, Hiroetsu ^a   Yagi, Mio ^a   Saito, Kenichi ^a   Suzuki, Katsushi ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrin; Hypogonadism; Oligomeganephronia; Reproductive senescence; Spag5; Sterility

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME 10; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPLASIA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FETUS; GENE INSERTION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPLASIA; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; MALE; MALE STERILITY; MITOSIS; MUTATION; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; KIDNEY; MALE; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

RATTUS;

EID: 33846819035     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2006.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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