Loss of Etv5 decreases proliferation and RET levels in neonatal mouse testicular germ cells and causes an abnormal first wave of spermatogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-266

  Tyagi, Gaurav ^a   Carnes, Kay ^a   Morrow, Carla ^a   Kostereva, Natalia V ^a   Ekman, Gail C ^a   Meling, Daryl D ^a   Hostetler, Chris ^b   Griswold, Michael ^b   Murphy, Kenneth M ^c   Hess, Rex A ^a   Hofmann, Marie Claude ^a   Cooke, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ERM; First wave; GDNF; GFRA1; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonial stem cells; Testis

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GFRA1; PROTEIN RET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETV5 GENE; GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRODISSECTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

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EID: 68049133178     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.075200     Document Type: Article

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