Androgen-dependent sertoli cell tight junction remodeling is mediated by multiple tight junction components

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1055-1072

  Chakraborty, Papia ^a   William Buaas, F ^a   Sharma, Manju ^a   Smith, Benjamin E ^a   Greenlee, Anne R ^a   Eacker, Stephen M ^b   Braun, Robert E ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CLAUDIN 3; PROTEIN ZO2; TRACER; TRICELLULIN; CLAUDIN; CLDN13 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CLDN3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MARVELD2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TJP2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; C57BL MOUSE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CLAUDIN-3; CLAUDINS; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; MALE; MARVEL DOMAIN CONTAINING 2 PROTEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; ZONULA OCCLUDENS-2 PROTEIN;

EID: 84903640592     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: 19449917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2013-1134     Document Type: Article

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