Loss of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A (VEGFA) isoforms in the testes of male mice causes subfertility, reduces sperm numbers, and alters expression of genes that regulate undifferentiated spermatogonia

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4790-4802

  Lu, Ningxia ^a   Sargent, Kevin M ^a   Clopton, Debra T ^a   Pohlmeier, William E ^a   Brauer, Vanessa M ^a   McFee, Renee M ^a   Weber, John S ^b   Ferrara, Napoleone ^c   Silversides, David W ^d   Cupp, Andrea S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ISOPROTEIN; NEUROGENIN 3; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN RET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIN3A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; DMRT1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MATING; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT; VASCULARIZATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84888221239     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1363     Document Type: Article

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