Defective survival of proliferating sertoli cells and androgen receptor function in a mouse model of the ATR-X syndrome

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2213-2224

  Bagheri fam, Stefan ^a,b   Argentaro, Anthony ^a   Svingen, Terje ^c   Combes, Alexander N ^c   Sinclair, Andrew H ^d   Koopman, Peter ^c   Harley, Vincent R ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA, MENTAL RETARDATION, X LINKED SYNDROME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATRX GENE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; RHOX5 GENE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA HELICASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION, X-LINKED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 79956035605     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr109     Document Type: Article

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