ARID4A and ARID4B regulate male fertility, a functional link to the AR and RB pathways

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4616-4621

  Wu, Ray Chang ^a   Jiang, Ming ^a   Beaudet, Arthur L ^b   Wu, Mei Yi ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor coactivator; Male reproductive function

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AT RICH INTERACTIVE DOMAIN 4B PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA BINDING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA-BINDING PROTEIN 1; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84875278501     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218318110     Document Type: Article

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