A deficiency of lunatic fringe is associated with cystic dilation of the rete testis

Reproduction

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-93

  Hahn, K L ^a,b,e   Beres, B ^a,b   Rowton, Megan J ^b   Skinner, M K ^c   Chang, Y ^a,b   Rawls, A ^a,b,d   Wilson Rawls, Jeanne ^a,d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; FUCOSE; JAGGED1; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; NOTCH3 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASPERMIA; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GRANULOSA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PLEIOTROPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; RECEPTOR BINDING; RETE TESTIS; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS DISEASE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CYSTS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RETE TESTIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; STAINING AND LABELING;

MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 65949087660     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0207     Document Type: Article

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