Sox8 and sertoli-cell function

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1120, Issue , 2007, Pages 104-113

  Kennedy, Claire L ^a,b   Koopman, Peter ^b,c   Mishina, Yuji ^d   O'Bryan, Moira K ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology and Development

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Fertility; Sertoli cells; Sox; Sperm; Testis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX8;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; EPIDIDYMIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

EID: 38049045137     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1411.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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