Identification of a transcription factor, BHLHB8, involved in mouse seminal vesicle epithelium differentiation and function

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-100

  Pin, Christopher L ^a   Johnson, Charis L ^a   Rade, Bryan ^a   Kowalik, Agnes S ^a   Garside, Victoria C ^a   Everest, Michelle E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Developmental biology; Gene regulation; Knock out; Male reproductive tract; Mist1; Mouse; Seminal vesicles; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEMINAL VESICLES;

MUS; RODENTIA; WOLFFIA;

EID: 38149027718     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.064196     Document Type: Article

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