A peptide derived from laminin-γ3 reversibly impairs spermatogenesis in rats

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Su, Linlin ^a   Mruk, Dolores D ^a   Lie, Pearl P Y ^a   Silvestrini, Bruno ^b   Yan Cheng, C ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; LAMININ; LAMININ GAMMA3; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACTIVITY; CELL ORGANELLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; PEPTIDE; RODENT; SPERMATOPHORE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GERM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CELL ADHESION; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; LAMININ; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OCCLUDIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84870783229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2171     Document Type: Article

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