Piwi-pathway alteration induces LINE-1 transposon derepression and infertility development in cryptorchidism

Sexual Development

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 98-104

  Hadziselimovic, Faruk ^a,d   Hadziselimovic, Nils O ^a,b   Demougin, Philippe ^b   Krey, Gunthild ^a   Oakeley, Eduard ^c  

^a Institute of Andrology   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d Institute for Cryptorchidism Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cell memory; Cryptorchidism; GTSF1; Human; Infertility; LINE 1; Mini puberty; PIWIL4; Transposon

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSPOSON;

COMPLICATION; CRYPTORCHISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSPOSON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84925351951     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000375351     Document Type: Article

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