Disruption of blood-testis barrier dynamics in ether-lipid-deficient mice

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 281-299

  Komljenovic, Dorde ^a,b   Sandhoff, Roger ^b   Teigler, Andre ^a   Heid, Hans ^b   Just, Wilhelm W ^a   Gorgas, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood testis (Sertoli cell) barrier; Claudins; Ether lipids; Intermediate compartment; Mouse, knockout (Gupat null); Spermatogenic arrest

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN 3; ETHER LIPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOSPHOLIPID ETHERS; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

MUS;

EID: 68449101716     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-009-0809-7     Document Type: Article

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