Specific deficiency of Plzf paralog, Zbtb20, in Sertoli cells does not affect spermatogenesis and fertility in mice

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jiang, Xiaohua ^a   Zhang, Huan ^a   Yin, Shi ^a   Zhang, Yuanwei ^a   Yang, Weimei ^a   Zheng, Wei ^a   Wang, Liu ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Bukhari, Ihtisham ^a   Cooke, Howard J ^a,b   Iqbal, Furhan ^a   Shi, Qinghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZBTB20 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; DEFICIENCY; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84928311906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07062     Document Type: Article

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