The use of transgenic mouse models in the study of male infertility

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 260-273

  Tamowski, Susan ^a   Aston, Kenneth I ^a   Carrell, Douglas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Knockout; Male infertility; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

DNA; NEOMYCIN; PHOSPHOLIPID HYDROPEROXIDE GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE P1; PROTAMINE P2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLASTOCYTE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEFECT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 77953573527     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2010.485244     Document Type: Review

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