Sertoli cell-only syndrome produced by cold testicular ischemia

Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 1074-1082

  Herng Young, George Pei ^a,b   Goldstein, Marc ^a   Phillips, David M ^a   Sundaram, Kalyan ^a   Gunsalus, Glen L ^a   Bardin, C Wayne ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; COLD; GERM LAYER; HISTOLOGY; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS ANOMALY;

ANDROGEN-BINDING PROTEIN; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLD; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADORELIN; ISCHEMIA; L-IDITOL 2-DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SERTOLI CELLS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYNDROME; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0023884135     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-122-3-1074     Document Type: Article

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