Estrogen-regulated genes in rat testes and their relationship to recovery of spermatogenesis after irradiation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 823-833

  Zhou, Wei ^a   Bolden Tiller, Olga U ^a,d   Shao, Shan H ^a   Weng, Connie C ^a   Shetty, Gunapala ^a   AbuElhija, Mahmoud ^a   Pakarinen, Pirjo ^b   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^b,e   Momin, Amin A ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Stivers, David N ^a   Liu, Zhilin ^c   Meistrich, Marvin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estradiol estradiol receptor; Estrogen; Gene expression; Irradiation; Leydig cells; MicroRNA; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonia; Testis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ACYLINE; ESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN ANTAGONIST; INSULIN; INSULIN LIKE 3; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IRRADIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIATION SICKNESS; RAT; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FLUTAMIDE; GAMMA RAYS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; INSULIN; MALE; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS;

EID: 80955159834     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.091611     Document Type: Article

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