A lack of contact of sperm with accessory sex gland secretions deregulates DNA methylation and imprinted gene expression in rodent embryos

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 200-213

  Poon, H K ^a   Lee, K H ^a   Wong, C L ^a   O, W S ^b   Chow, P H ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Accessory sex gland; Dlk1; DNA methylation; Embryos; Igf2

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DLK 1 GENE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GTL 2 GENE; H 19 GENE; HAMSTER; IGF 2 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERM;

ANIMALS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CRICETINAE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENITALIA, MALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; MICE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 72949105311     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396360903165256     Document Type: Article

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