Promoter analysis of the gene encoding GDNF in murine Sertoli cells

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 394, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 105-114

  Lamberti, Dante ^a   Vicini, Elena ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

CRE; FSH; GDNF; Luciferase activity; Sertoli cells; Spermatogonial stem cells

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GDNF PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GDNF GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE;

5' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYCLIC AMP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84904860327     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2014.07.006     Document Type: Article

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