The ter mutation in the Rat Dnd1 gene initiates gonadal teratomas and infertility in both genders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Northrup, Emily ^a   Zschemisch, Nils Holger ^a   Eisenblätter, Regina ^a   Glage, Silke ^a   Wedekind, Dirk ^a   Cuppen, Edwin ^b   Dorsch, Martina ^a   Hedrich, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD END HOMOLOG 1 PROTEIN; TUMOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DND1 PROTEIN, RAT; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DND1 GENE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONAD TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STOP CODON; TERATOMA; TESTIS TERATOMA; TUMOR GENE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GONAD; METABOLISM; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; TESTIS TUMOR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERM CELLS; GONADS; INFERTILITY; MALE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POINT MUTATION; RATS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84861401573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038001     Document Type: Article

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