Zika virus causes testicular atrophy

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Uraki, Ryuta ^a   Hwang, Jesse ^a   Jurado, Kellie Ann ^a   Householder, Sarah ^a   Yockey, Laura J ^a   Hastings, Andrew K ^a   Homer, Robert J ^a,b   Iwasaki, Akiko ^a,c   Fikrig, Erol ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; CELLS; MAMMALS;

EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLAVIVIRUS; LEYDIG CELLS; LONG-TERM POTENTIAL; MALE FERTILITY; SERUM TESTOSTERONE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

VIRUSES;

ALPHA BETA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; IFNAR1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TESTOSTERONE; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ATROPHY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TESTIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTOR, INTERFERON ALPHA-BETA; RNA, VIRAL; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85023645272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602899     Document Type: Article

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