Retinoic acid induces multiple hallmarks of the prospermatogonia-to-spermatogonia transition in the neonatal mouse

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Busada, Jonathan T ^a   Kaye, Evelyn P ^a   Renegar, Randall H ^a   Geyer, Christopher B ^a,b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Gamete biology; Retinoids; Spermatogonia; Testis

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 26A1; CYTOCHROME P450 2B1; F ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GOLGI COMPLEX; IN VIVO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPERMATOGONIA; PROSPERMATOGONIA TO SPERMATOGONIA TRANSITION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GAMETE BIOLOGY; RETINOIDS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GOLGI APPARATUS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGANELLES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TISSUE FIXATION; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84899896334     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.114645     Document Type: Article

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