Profiling spermatogenic failure in adult testes bearing Sox9-deficient Sertoli cells identifies genes involved in feminization, inflammation and stress

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lardenois, Aurélie ^a   Chalmel, Frédéric ^a   Barrionuevo, Francisco ^b,d   Demougin, Philippe ^c   Scherer, Gerd ^b   Primig, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SOX9 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMINIZATION; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SOX9 GENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRESS; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

MUS;

ANIMALS; FEMINIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTIS;

EID: 78650312751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-154     Document Type: Article

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