Expression of the ubiquitin proteasome system in neonatal rat gonocytes and spermatogonia: Role in gonocyte differentiation1

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Manku, Gurpreet ^a,b   Wing, Simon S ^a,b   Culty, Martine ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Gonocyte; Spermatogonia; Testis; Ubiquitin proteasome system

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DAZL PROTEIN; DEUBIQUITINATING ENZYME; LACTACYSTIN; RETINOIC ACID; STRA8 PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM CELL; GONOCYTE; MALE; MARKER GENE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS; UBIQUITIN PROTEASOME SYSTEM; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEASOME INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGONIA; TRETINOIN; UBIQUITIN;

RATTUS;

EID: 84869388997     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.099143     Document Type: Article

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