Apoptosis-inhibitor Aven is downregulated in defective spermatogenesis and a novel estrogen target gene in mammalian testis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 745-750

  Laurentino, Sandra ^a   Gonalves, João ^a   Cavaco, José Eduardo ^a   Oliveira, Pedro Fontes ^a   Alves, Marco G ^b   De Sousa, Mário ^c   Barros, Alberto ^c,d   Socorro, Sílvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; apoptosis; Aven; caspase inhibitor; seminiferous tubules; Sertoli cells; spermatogenesis; testis

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; CASPASE 9; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AVEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOSPERMATOGENESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SERTOLI CELL ONLY SYNDROME; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY; DOWN-REGULATION; ESTRADIOL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELL-ONLY SYNDROME; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 80052262541     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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