Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia and Infertility in Mice Deficient for miR-34b/c and miR-449 Loci

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Comazzetto, Stefano ^a   Di Giacomo, Monica ^a   Rasmussen, Kasper Dindler ^a,b   Much, Christian ^a   Azzi, Chiara ^a   Perlas, Emerald ^a   Morgan, Marcos ^a   O'Carroll, Dónal ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 34B; MICRORNA 34C; MICRORNA 449; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DICER1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MIRN34 MICRORNA, MOUSE; MIRN449 MICRORNA, MOUSE; RIBONUCLEASE III;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ASTHENOSPERMIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MITOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRORNAS; MITOSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; RIBONUCLEASE III; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84908354606     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004597     Document Type: Article

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