Differential gene expression in the testes of different murine strains under normal and hyperthermic conditions

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 325-337

  Li, Ying ^a   Zhou, Qing ^a   Hively, Randy ^a   Yang, Lizhong ^a   Small, Christopher ^a   Griswold, Michael D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AKR N; C57BL 6; Heat stress; Microarray analysis; Mouse strain; Testis

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE;

AKR MOUSE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE NUMBER; GERM CELL; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HYPERTHERMIA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TESTIS FUNCTION; THERMAL EXPOSURE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TESTIS;

EID: 65549095374     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.108.005934     Document Type: Article

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