Transcription in haploid male germ cells

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 237, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-56

  Dadoune, Jean Pierre ^a   Siffroi, Jean Pierre ^a   Alfonsi, Marie Françoise ^a  

^a Ctr Univ des Saints Pères   (France)

Author keywords

Haploid genome; Messenger RNAs; Spermatozoa; Spermiogenesis; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GROWTH FACTOR; HISTONE; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OUTER DENSE FIBER PROTEIN; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTAMINE; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; DNA HELIX; DNA PACKAGING; DNA REPAIR; EJACULATION; FERTILIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HALF LIFE TIME; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 4544345169     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(04)37001-4     Document Type: Article

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