Roles of small RNAs in the effects of nutrition on apoptosis and spermatogenesis in the adult testis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Guan, Yongjuan ^a   Liang, Guanxiang ^b   Hawken, Penelope A R ^a   Malecki, Irek A ^a,d   Cozens, Greg ^a   Vercoe, Philip E ^a   Martin, Graeme B ^a,c   Guan, Le Luo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; DIET; MALE; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SHEEP; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DIET; MALE; MICRORNAS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SERTOLI CELLS; SHEEP; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84930210227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10372     Document Type: Article

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