Overexpression of follistatin in the mouse epididymis disrupts fluid resorption and sperm transit in testicular excurrent ducts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Seachrist, Darcie D ^a   Johnson, Emhonta ^a   Magee, Christianne ^b   Clay, Colin M ^b   Graham, James K ^b   Rao Veeramachaneni, D N ^b   Keri, Ruth A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Fertility; Follistatin; Mouse; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLISTATIN; GONADOTROPIN; MALE CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FIBROSIS; FLUID RESORPTION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MAMMARY GLAND; MICROSCOPY; MINERALIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR EXCURRENT DUCT; TESTIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUMOR GROWTH; VAGINA; WATER ABSORPTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84869436741     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.097527     Document Type: Article

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