Dynamic changes in the expression of apoptosis-related genes in differentiating gonocytes and in seminomas

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 403-414

  Manku, Gurpreet ^a,b,c   Culty, Martine ^a,b,c  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

apoptosis; differentiation; gonocytes; seminomas; spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RETINOIC ACID; CASPASE 9; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS RELATED GENE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; ADULT STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 9; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84928997651     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.146101     Document Type: Article

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