Inducible male infertility by targeted cell ablation in zebrafish testis

Marine Biotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 466-478

  Hsu, Chia Chun ^a,b   Hou, Min Fon ^c   Hong, Jiann Ruey ^d   Wu, Jen Leih ^e   Her, Guor Mour ^c  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

GFP; Male infertility; Metronidazole; Nitroreductase; Transgenic fish; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

MALE INFERTILITY; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROREDUCTASES; TRANSGENIC FISHES; ZEBRAFISH;

ABLATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEINS; STANDARDIZATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NFSA PROTEIN, E COLI; NITROREDUCTASE; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CYPRINID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GERM CELL; INFERTILITY; POPULATION REGULATION; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; TOXIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROREDUCTASES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77954956666     PISSN: 14362228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10126-009-9248-4     Document Type: Article

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