Reduced fertility with impairment of early-stage embryos observed in mice lacking Lgr4 in epithelial tissues

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2878-2881

  Mohri, Yasuaki ^a   Umezu, Tomohiro ^b   Hidema, Shizu ^a   Tomisawa, Hayato ^a   Akamatsu, Atsushi ^a   Kato, Shigeki ^a   Nawa, Akihiro ^c   Nishimori, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lgr4, K5 Cre transgenic mice; reproductive tract

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; UTERUS;

EID: 78650181939     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.05.050     Document Type: Article

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