Stage-specific gene expression is a fundamental characteristic of rat spermatogenic cells and Sertoli cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 8315-8320

  Johnston, Daniel S ^a   Wright, William W ^b   DiCandeloro, Paul ^a,c   Wilson, Ewa ^a   Kopf, Gregory S ^a,d   Jelinsky, Scott A ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Array analysis; Contraception; Seminiferous tubules; Spermatogenesis; Stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithellum

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 2; EXCISION REPAIR CROSS COMPLEMENTING PROTEIN 1; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; NIBRIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE 2; PROTEIN APEX1; PROTEIN APTX; PROTEIN CCNB1; PROTEIN CDC2A; PROTEIN DCX; PROTEIN DPYSL4; PROTEIN GPC4; PROTEIN MDM2; PROTEIN MLH3; PROTEIN PNPK; PROTEIN POLD3; PROTEIN POLK; PROTEIN TDP1; RAD50 PROTEIN; XRCC1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE PROBE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICRODISSECTION; MOUSE; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; NEURONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 46149123689     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709854105     Document Type: Article

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