Investigation of DAZ and RBMY1 gene expression in human testis by quantitative real-time PCR

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 71-73

  Lavery, R ^a   Glennon, M ^a   Houghton, J ^a   Nolan, A ^b   Egan, D ^b   Maher, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Histopathology; Male infertility; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAZ GENE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RBMY1 GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TISSUE SECTION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ACTINS; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TESTIS;

EID: 34247347400     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: 15210375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01485010600915228     Document Type: Article

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