The acrosomal protein Dickkopf-like 1 (DKKL1) is not essential for fertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1526-1532

  Kaneko, Kotaro J ^a   Kohn, Matthew J ^a   Liu, Chengyu ^b   DePamphilis, Melvin L ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

acrosome; conditional knock out; DKKL1; Fertilization; sperm

Indexed keywords

DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN;

129 MOUSE; ACROSOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VIABILITY; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GIANT CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MAMMAL; MATING; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA ANALYSIS; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TROPHOBLAST;

ACROSOME; AGING; ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 77949272782     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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