Hormonal induction of all stages of spermatogenesis in germ-somatic cell coculture from immature Japanese eel testis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 257-262

  Miura, Chiemi ^a   Miura, Takeshi ^a   Yamashita, Masakane ^a   Yamauchi, Kohei ^a   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

coculture; fish; germ cell; Sertoli cell; testis

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; EEL; GROWTH REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; PISCES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0029882767     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1996.t01-2-00004.x     Document Type: Article

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