Gadd45g Is Essential for Primary Sex Determination, Male Fertility and Testis Development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Johnen, Heiko ^a   González Silva, Laura ^a   Carramolino, Laura ^b   Flores, Juana Maria ^c   Torres, Miguel ^b   Salvador, Jesús M ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45A; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45B; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADAL DYSGENESIS, 46,XY; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TESTIS;

EID: 84874823005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058751     Document Type: Article

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