Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 5 , Pages 1407-1414 , 15 March 2010

Testis atrophy and reduced sperm motility in transgenic mice overexpressing c-FLIPL

  • Fabrizio Antonangeli, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Medical Embryology, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Simonetta Petrungaro, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Medical Embryology, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Pierpaolo Coluccia, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, P. Valdoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Antonio Filippini, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Medical Embryology, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Elio Ziparo, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Medical Embryology, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Claudia Giampietri, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Medical Embryology, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Claudia Giampietri, Ph.D., Department of Histology and Medical Embryology, Sapienza University of Rome, via A. Scarpa 14, 00161 Rome, Italy (FAX: 39-064462854).

Received 17 October 2008 ,Revised 28 November 2008 ,Accepted 7 January 2009.

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 F.A. has nothing to disclose. S.P. has nothing to disclose. P.C. has nothing to disclose. A.F. has nothing to disclose. E.Z. has nothing to disclose. C.G. has nothing to disclose.

 This work was supported by grants from Ministero dell' Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, PRIN 2007.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00214-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.01.122

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 5 , Pages 1407-1414 , 15 March 2010

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