Autophagy and apoptosis act as partners to induce germ cell death after heat stress in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Mianqiu ^a   Jiang, Min ^a   Bi, Ye ^a   Zhu, Hui ^a   Zhou, Zuomin ^a   Sha, Jiahao ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY RELATED GENE 7 PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TREATMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; DOWN-REGULATION; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

MUS;

EID: 84864366858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041412     Document Type: Article

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