Testosterone withdrawal promotes stage-specific detachment of round spermatids from the rat seminiferous epithelium

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 895-901

  O'Donnell, Liza ^a,d   McLachlan, Robert I ^a   Wreford, Nigel G ^b   De Kretser, David M ^c   Robertson, David M ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EPIDIDYMIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; ILEX COOKII;

EID: 0029787431     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.4.895     Document Type: Article

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