Significant Expression Levels of Transgenic PPP1CC2 in Testis and Sperm Are Required to Overcome the Male Infertility Phenotype of Ppp1cc Null Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Sinha, Nilam ^a,c   Pilder, Stephen ^b   Vijayaraghavan, Srinivasan ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIFESPAN; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; STEADY STATE; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TRANSGENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CELL COUNT; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84867650357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047623     Document Type: Article

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