New insights of polyamine metabolism in testicular physiology: A role of ornithine decarboxylase antizyme inhibitor 2 (AZIN2) in the modulation of testosterone levels and sperm motility

• Ana Lambertos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Lambertos, Bruno Ramos-Molina

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria (IMIB), Murcia, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5616-2218

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• Bruno Ramos-Molina ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Lambertos, Bruno Ramos-Molina

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Virgen de la Victoria University Hospital, Institute of Biomedical Research in Malaga (IBIMA), Malaga, Spain; CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERObn), Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6804-5449

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• Andrés J. López-Contreras,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Center for Chromosome Stability, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5517-7327

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• Asunción Cremades,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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• Rafael Peñafiel

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rapegar@um.es

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria (IMIB), Murcia, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5816-1056

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