Selective ablation of ppp1cc gene in testicular germ cells causes oligo-teratozoospermia and infertility in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sinha, Nilam ^a,d   Puri, Pawan ^b   Nairn, Angus C ^c   Vijayaraghavan, Srinivasan ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional knockout; CRE; Gametogenesis; Knock down; Male fertility; Male infertility; Phosphatases; Phosphoprotein phosphatases; Promoter; Serine Threonine phosphatase; Spermatogenesis; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PP1 GAMMA1 PROTEIN; PP1 GAMMA2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PPP1CC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

CONDITIONAL KNOCKOUT; CRE; GAMETOGENESIS; KNOCK DOWN; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; PHOSPHATASES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PROMOTER; SERINE/THREONINE PHOSPHATASE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84901065413     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.110239     Document Type: Article

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