Rictor/mTORC2 regulates blood-testis barrier dynamics via its effects on gap junction communications and actin filament network

FASEB Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1137-1152

  Mok, Ka Wai ^a,b   Mruk, Dolores D ^a   Lee, Will M ^b   Cheng, C Yan ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ectoplasmic specialization; Seminiferous epithelial cycle; Sertoli cell; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; CALCEIN; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 43; F ACTIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 2; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ZO1; RAC1 PROTEIN; RICTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LYSATE; CELLS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; FROZEN SECTION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DOWN-REGULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HYDRAZINES; INDAZOLES; MALE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; STRESS FIBERS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; ZONULA OCCLUDENS-1 PROTEIN;

EID: 84874592274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-212977     Document Type: Article

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