Temporal control of spermatogenesis is independent of the central circadian pacemaker in djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-129

  Klose, Melanie ^a   Grote, Karen ^a   Lerchl, Alexander ^a,b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Sperm maturation; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARNTI GENE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PER1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ARNTL TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; SPERMATOGENESIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 78651489095     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085126     Document Type: Article

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