Male hypogonadism as a candidate of deficiency of postnatal testicular growth or differentiating factor(s): A new autosomal recessive mutation in the rat

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 54-58

  Suzuki, K ^a   Hakamata, Y ^a   Hamada, A ^a   Kikukawa, K ^a   Wada, M Y ^a   Imamichi, T ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH; HEREDITY; HISTOLOGY; HYPOGONADISM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS SIZE;

AGING; ANIMAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MUTATION; ORGAN WEIGHT; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; REFERENCE VALUES; TESTIS;

EID: 0023917836     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110447     Document Type: Article

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