Local signalling environments and human male infertility: What we can learn from mouse models

Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nalam, Roopa L ^a   Matzuk, Martin M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; NEURITE PROMOTING FACTOR; RETINOIC ACID; STEM CELL FACTOR;

DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GERM CELL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA;

EID: 77955506935     PISSN: 14623994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1462399410001468     Document Type: Review

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