The role of Dicer1 in the male reproductive tract

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 737-741

  Björkgren, Ida ^a,b   Sipilä, Petra ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Turku Doctoral Programme of Biomedical Sciences   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DICER; DICER1 PROTEIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III;

APOPTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA PROCESSING; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; RIBONUCLEASE III; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84940775459     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.155542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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