Targeted disruption of one of the importin α family members leads to female functional incompetence in delivery

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1561-1572

  Moriyama, Tetsuji ^a   Nagai, Masahiro ^a   Oka, Masahiro ^a   Ikawa, Masahito ^b   Okabe, Masaru ^b   Yoneda, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

estrogen; gene knockout; importin ; nuclear transport; reproduction

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; IMPORTIN ALPHA5; ISOPROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS DEATH; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOPLASIA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR PORE; OVARY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RISK FACTOR; UTERUS MALFORMATION;

ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; ANIMALS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79955060247     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08079.x     Document Type: Article

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