Germ-line activation of the luteinizing hormone receptor directly drives spermiogenesis in a nonmammalian vertebrate

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

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1427-1432

  Chauvigné, Francois ^a,b   Zapater, Cinta ^a,b   Gasol, Josep M ^b   Cerdà, Joan ^a,b  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE CHORIOGONADOTROPIN RECPETOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MOLECULAR MARKER; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FLATFISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HAPLOIDY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TELEOST; TETRAPOD; VERTEBRATE;

FERTILITY; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FLATFISHES; GERM CELLS; MALE; RECEPTORS, LH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84893416762     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317838111     Document Type: Article

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