Mouse spermatogenesis requires classical and nonclassical testosterone signaling

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Toocheck, Corey ^a   Clister, Terri ^a   Shupe, John ^a   Crum, Chelsea ^a   Ravindranathan, Preethi ^b   Lee, Tae Kyung ^b   Ahn, Jung Mo ^b   Raj, Ganesh V ^b   Sukhwani, Meena ^a   Orwig, Kyle E ^a   Walker, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Fertility; Nongenomic; Sertoli cell; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PEM PROTEIN, RAT; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZBTB16 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FERTILITY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SERTOLI CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84957921614     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.115.132068     Document Type: Article

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