Identification of testis-specific male contraceptive targets: Insights from transcriptional profiling of the cycle of the rat seminiferous epithelium and purified testicular cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1120, Issue , 2007, Pages 36-46

  Johnston, Daniel S ^a,d   Jelinsky, Scott A ^b   Zhi, Yu ^a   Finger, Joshua N ^a   Kopf, Gregory S ^a   Wright, William W ^c  

^a Women's Health and Musculoskeletal Biology

^b Molecular Profiling and Biomarker Discovery

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraception; Microarray; Seminferous epithelium; Testis; Testis specific

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GENE PRODUCT;

BIOINFORMATICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRACEPTION; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICRODISSECTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TESTIS CELL; TESTIS FUNCTION;

MAMMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 38049019862     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1411.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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