Decreased spermatogenesis, fertility, and altered Slc2A expression in Akt1-/-and Akt2-/-testes and sperm

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-42

  Kim, Sung Tae ^a   Omurtag, Kenan ^a   Moley, Kelle H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; facilitative glucose transporter; fertility; sperm; testis

Indexed keywords

AKT1 PROTEIN; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN KINASE B BETA; SLC2A8 PROTEIN; SLC2A9A PROTEIN; SLC2A9B PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84855427270     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111424449     Document Type: Article

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