Expression of nerve growth factor and neurotrophin receptors in testicular cells suggest novel roles for neurotrophins outside the nervous system

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1075-1087

  Seidl, Klaus ^a   Buchberger, Astrid ^a   Erck, Christian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Germ cells; Mouse; p75(NGFR); Puberty; Testis; trkA; trkB; trkC

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LEYDIG CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PUBERTY; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MYOIDEA;

EID: 0029906221     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD9961075     Document Type: Article

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