Male germ cell-specific knockout of cholesterogenic cytochrome P450 lanosterol 14α-demethylase (Cyp51)

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1653-1661

  Keber, Rok ^a   Ačimovič, Jure ^a   Majdič, Gregor ^a   Motaln, Helena ^b   Rozman, Damjana ^a   Horvat, Simon ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEIOSIS ACTIVATING STEROLS; MESSENGER RNA; STEROL; STEROL 14ALPHA DEMETHYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CYP51 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MEIOSIS; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

MEIOSIS-ACTIVATING STEROL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROL INTERMEDIATE;

ANIMALS; LANOSTEROL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; STEROL 14-DEMETHYLASE;

EID: 84877880864     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M035717     Document Type: Article

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