Lgr4-mediated wnt/β-catenin signaling in peritubular myoid cells is essential for spermatogenesis

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1751-1761

  Qian, Yu ^a   Liu, Shijie ^a   Guan, Yuting ^a   Pan, Hongjie ^a   Guan, Xin ^a   Qiu, Zhongwei ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Gao, Na ^a   Zhao, Yongxiang ^b   Li, Xiaoying ^c   Lu, Yan ^c   Liu, Mingyao ^a,d   Li, Dali ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Peritubular myoid cell; Spermatogenesis; Wnt

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BETA CATENIN; CASPASE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 18; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 4; SCLEROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERITUBULAR MYOID CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS SIZE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

MUS; MYOIDA;

EID: 84875420089     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.093641     Document Type: Article

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