Lkb1 is an essential regulator of spermatozoa release during spermiation in the mammalian testis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Denison, Fiona C ^a   Smith, Lee B ^b   Muckett, Phillip J ^a   O'Hara, Laura ^b   Carling, David ^a   Woods, Angela ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; STK11 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMIATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 82455186310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028306     Document Type: Article

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