Regulation of blood-testis barrier dynamics by TGF-β3 is a Cdc42-dependent protein trafficking event

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 11399-11404

  Wong, Elissa W P ^a   Mruk, Dolores D ^a   Lee, Will M ^b   Cheng, C Yan ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cytokines; GTPases; Protein endocytosis; Seminiferous epithelial cycle; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN CDC42; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SERTOLI CELL; TIGHT JUNCTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPITHELIUM CELL; METABOLISM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOCYTE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

EID: 77954917321     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001077107     Document Type: Article

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