Nuclear androgen receptors in different stages of the seminiferous epithelial cycle and the interstitial tissue of rat testis

Endocrinology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 132-137

  Isomaa, Veli ^a,b   Parvinen, Martti ^a,c   Jänne, Olli A ^a   Bardin, C Wayne ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANIMAL CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METHYLTRIENOLONE H 3; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSOL; ESTRENES; MALE; METRIBOLONE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTIS;

EID: 0021924383     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-116-1-132     Document Type: Article

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