Status of the executioner step of apoptosis in human with normal spermatogenesis and azoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1723-1731

  Bozec, Aline ^a   Amara, Souheila ^a   Guarmit, Basma ^a   Selva, Jacqueline ^a,c,d   Albert, Martine ^c,d   Rollet, Jacques ^e   El Sirkasi, Mohamed ^a   Vialard, Francois ^c   Bailly, Marc ^c   Benahmed, Mohamed ^a   Mauduit, Claire ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^c CHIPS   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e Clinique du Val d'Ouest   (France)

Author keywords

active caspase 3; Apoptosis; azoospermia; germ cells; IAPs; Smac Diablo; spermatogenetic arrest; testes; XIAP

Indexed keywords

EFFECTOR CASPASE; EFFECTOR CASPASE 6; EFFECTOR CASPASE 7; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; PROCASPASE 3; SECOND MITOCHONDRIAL ACTIVATOR OF CASPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X LINKED INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FRANCE; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; AZOOSPERMIA; CASPASE 3; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; X-LINKED INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55349121531     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.09.058     Document Type: Article

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