The small GTPase Rheb is required for spermatogenesis but not oogenesis

Reproduction

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 615-625

  Baker, M D ^a,b   Ezzati, M ^a   Aloisio, G M ^a   Tarnawa, E D ^a   Cuevas, I ^a   Nakada, Y ^a   Castrillon, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Fort Worth Fertility   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RHEB PROTEIN; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MTOR PROTEIN, MOUSE; NEUROPEPTIDE; RHEB PROTEIN, MOUSE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM LINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE STERILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFICIENCY; FERTILITY; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84898933262     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0304     Document Type: Article

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