Testicular lumicrine factors regulate ERK, STAT, and NFKB pathways in the initial segment of the rat epididymis to prevent apoptosis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1282-1291

  Xu, Bingfang ^a   Abdel Fattah, Rana ^a   Yang, Ling ^a   Crenshaw, Sallie A ^a   Black, Michael B ^b   Hinton, Barry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Epididymis; ERK pathway; Kinases; Lumicrine factors; Male reproductive tract; Microarray; NFKB pathway; Phosphatase; Protein array; Signal transduction; STAT pathway

Indexed keywords

DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE; DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE 5; DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE 6; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; PHOSPHATASE; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BODY FLUIDS; EPIDIDYMIS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TESTIS;

RATTUS;

EID: 79958193836     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.090324     Document Type: Article

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