Loss of sertoli-germ cell adhesion determines the rapid germ cell elimination during the seasonal regression of the seminiferous epithelium of the large hairy armadillo chaetophractus villosus1

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Luaces, Juan Pablo ^a   Rossi, Luis Francisco ^a   Sciurano, Roberta Beatriz ^a   Rebuzzini, Paola ^b   Merico, Valeria ^b   Zuccotti, Maurizio ^c   Merani, Maria Susana ^a   Garagna, Silvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecules; Anoikis; Apoptosis; Cadm1; Intermediate filaments; N cadherin and b catenin; Nectin 3; Phagocytosis; Seasonal reproduction; Spermatogenesis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CADM1 PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CELL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C; FAT DROPLET; NECTIN; NECTIN 3; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LOSS; CELL PHAGOCYTOSIS; CHAETOPHRACTUS VILLOSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DESMOSOME; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; GERM CELL; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE REGRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADHESION MOLECULES; ANOIKIS; APOPTOSIS; CADM1; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; N-CADHERIN AND Β-CATENIN; NECTIN-3; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SEASONAL REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARMADILLOS; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CASPASE 3; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CYTOCHROMES C; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SEASONS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS;

EID: 84899928423     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.113118     Document Type: Article

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