Impaired fertility and spermiogenetic disorders with loss of cell adhesion in male mice expressing an interfering Rap1 mutant

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1530-1542

  Aivatiadou, Evanthia ^a   Mattei, Elisabetta ^b   Ceriani, Michela ^c   Tilia, Leila ^b   Berruti, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; RAP1 PROTEIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTAMINES; RAP1 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34247186379     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E06-10-0902     Document Type: Article

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