Impaired male fertility and atrophy of seminiferous tubules caused by haploinsufficiency for Foxa3

Developmental Biology

Volumn 306, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 636-645

  Behr, Rüdiger ^a   Sackett, Sara D ^a   Bochkis, Irina M ^a   Le, Phillip Phuc ^a   Kaestner, Klaus H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Foxa3; Haploinsufficiency; Kallikreins; Leydig cell; Paracrine signalling; Sertoli cell; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Winged helix transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3GAMMA; KALLIKREIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 94;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GERM CELL; GERM LAYER; HAPLOTYPE; LEYDIG CELL; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS ATROPHY;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 34249912414     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.03.525     Document Type: Article

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