Male fertility and protein C inhibitor/plasminogen activator inhibitor-3 (PCI): localization of PCI in mouse testis and failure of single plasminogen activator knockout to restore spermatogenesis in PCI-deficient mice

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 1049-1057

  Uhrin, Pavel ^a   Schöfer, Christian ^b   Zaujec, Jan ^a   Ryban, Lubos ^a,d   Hilpert, Mario ^a   Weipoltshammer, Klara ^b   Jerabek, Ingrid ^a   Pirtzkall, Irene ^a   Furtmüller, Margareta ^a   Dewerchin, Mieke ^c   Binder, Bernd R ^a   Geiger, Margarethe ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d Department of Ethics and Aesthetics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

mice; PCI; rescue of infertility; tPA; urokinase

Indexed keywords

PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 3; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN C INHIBITOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 34848885727     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.193     Document Type: Article

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