Evidence from sertoli cell-depleted rats indicates that spermatid number in adults depends on numbers of sertoli cells produced during perinatal development

Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 787-794

  Orth, Joanne M ^a,b   Gunsalus, Glen L ^a,b   Lamperti, Albert A ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN BINDING PROTEIN; FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANDROGEN-BINDING PROTEIN; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CYTARABINE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023901568     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-122-3-787     Document Type: Article

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