Male contraception via simultaneous knockout of α1A-adrenoceptors and P2X1-purinoceptors in mice

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

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20825-20830

  White, Carl W ^a   Choong, Yan Ting ^b   Short, Jennifer L ^a   Exintaris, Betty ^a   Malone, Daniel T ^a   Allen, Andrew M ^b   Evans, Richard J ^c   Ventura, Sabatino ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATP; Noradrenaline; Sympathetic neurotransmission

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1A ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL; PURINERGIC P2X1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESTING HEART RATE; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; VAS DEFERENS; WILD TYPE; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84890834588     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318624110     Document Type: Article

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