Male mice with deleted Wolframin (Wfs1) gene have reduced fertility

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Noormets, Klari ^a   Kõks, Sulev ^a,b   Kavak, Ants ^b   Arend, Andres ^a   Aunapuu, Marina ^a   Keldrimaa, Aivi ^a   Vasar, Eero ^a   Tillmann, Vallo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOLFRAMIN I; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WOLFRAMIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE DELETION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FERTILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PREGNANCY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE DELETION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PREGNANCY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 69849097022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-82     Document Type: Article

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