Regulation of male fertility by X-linked genes

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-85

  Zheng, Ke ^a   Yang, Fang ^a   Wang, Peijing Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infertility; Meiosis; Spermatogenesis; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE ANCHORING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR; NUCLEAR RNA EXPORT FACTOR 2; PROTEIN TEX11; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TBP ASSOCIATED FACTOR 71; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOMICS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

A KINASE ANCHOR PROTEINS; ANIMALS; FERTILITY; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; STEM CELLS;

EID: 77749246462     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.109.008193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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