Knockout of BRD7 results in impaired spermatogenesis and male infertility

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Heran ^a   Zhao, Ran ^a   Guo, Chi ^a   Jiang, Shihe ^a   Yang, Jing ^a   Xu, Yang ^a   Liu, Yukun ^a   Fan, Liqing ^a   Xiong, Wei ^a   Ma, Jian ^a   Peng, Shuping ^a   Zeng, Zhaoyang ^a   Zhou, Yanhong ^a   Li, Xiayu ^a   Li, Zheng ^a   Li, Xiaoling ^a   Schmitt, David C ^b   Tan, Ming ^b   Li, Guiyuan ^a   Zhou, Ming ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRD7 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA LIGASE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; C57BL MOUSE; DEFICIENCY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 84958280967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21776     Document Type: Article

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