Ethylene dimethanesulfonate destroys leydig cells in the rat testis

Endocrinology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 709-719

  Morris, Ian D ^a   Phillips, David M ^b   Bardin, C Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMESYLATE; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; KINETICS; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MESYLATES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0022576883     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-118-2-709     Document Type: Article

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