Nuclear size as estrogen-responsive chromatin quality parameter of mouse spermatozoa

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 193, Issue , 2013, Pages 201-209

  Cacciola, Giovanna ^a   Chioccarelli, Teresa ^a   Altucci, Lucia ^a   Viggiano, Andrea ^b   Fasano, Silvia ^a   Pierantoni, Riccardo ^a   Cobellis, Gilda ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Sperm chromatin quality; Sperm histone retention; Sperm nuclear size; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CNR1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE CHROMATIN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM CHROMATIN QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON;

ESTROGEN; SPERM CHROMATIN QUALITY; SPERM HISTONE RETENTION; SPERM NUCLEAR SIZE; SPERMIOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; ESTROGENS; HISTONES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84883703415     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.07.018     Document Type: Article

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