Lymphoid-specific helicase (HELLS) is essential for meiotic progression in mouse spermatocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1235-1241

  Zeng, Wenxian ^a   Baumann, Claudia ^a,e   Schmidtmann, Anja ^b   Honaramooz, Ali ^a,c   Tang, Lin ^d   Bondareva, Alla ^d   Dores, Camila ^d   Fan, Tao ^b   Xi, Sichuan ^b   Geiman, Theresa ^b   Rathi, Rahul ^a   de Rooij, Dirk ^f   La Fuente, Rabindranath De ^a,e   Muegge, Kathrin ^b   Dobrinski, Ina ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromosomes; Developmental biology; HELLS; LSH; Meiosis; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; HELICASE; LYMPHOID SPECIFIC HELICASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 79958193837     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085720     Document Type: Article

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