TSPY expression is variably altered in transgenic mice with testicular feminization

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-133

  Schubert, Stephanie ^a   Kamino, Kenji ^a   Böhm, Detlef ^b,e   Adham, Ibrahim ^b   Engel, Wolfgang ^b   Von Wasielewski, Reinhard ^a   Moharregh Khiabani, Darius ^a   Mauceri, Grazia ^c   Vaske, Bernhard ^a   Meinhardt, Andreas ^d   Schöner, Anja ^a   Gonzalez Fassrainer, Daniela ^a   Schmidtke, Jörg ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leydig cells; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Testosterone; TSPY

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GONADOBLASTOMA; HEMIZYGOTE; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS WEIGHT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TSPY GENE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMINIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 46449104338     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.067025     Document Type: Article

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