Mouse Sox17 haploinsufficiency leads to female subfertility due to impaired implantation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Hirate, Yoshikazu ^a   Suzuki, Hitomi ^a   Kawasumi, Miyuri ^a   Takase, Hinako M ^a   Igarashi, Hitomi ^b   Naquet, Philippe ^c   Kanai, Yoshiakira ^b   Kanai Azuma, Masami ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; SOX17 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SOX18 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SOX7 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANIMAL; BLASTOCYST; C57BL MOUSE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; NIDATION; OVIDUCT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UTERUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HMGB PROTEINS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OVIDUCTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOXF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UTERUS;

EID: 84963657361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24171     Document Type: Article

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