MicroRNA signature in various cell types of mouse spermatogenesis: Evidence for stage-specifically expressed miRNA-221, -203 and -34b-5p mediated spermatogenesis regulation

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 677-692

  Smorag, Lukasz ^a   Zheng, Ying ^a,b   Nolte, Jessica ^a   Zechner, Ulrich ^c   Engel, Wolfgang ^a   Pantakani, Dasaradha Venkata Krishna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b CLINICAL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Meiosis; MiRNA; Spermatogenesis; SSC; Sycp3 transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 6; LUCIFERASE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 203; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 34B; MICRORNA 5P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C KIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRORNAS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 84867903837     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: 1768322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boc.201200014     Document Type: Article

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