In vitro, follicle-stimulating hormone prevents apoptosis and stimulates deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis in the rat seminiferous epithelium in a stage-specific fashion

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2141-2149

  Henriksén, Kenth ^a   Kangasniemi, Marko ^a   Parvinen, Martti ^a   Kaipia, Antti ^a   Hakovirta, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL CYCLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MITOSIS RATE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM;

EID: 0029913363     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.5.8612559     Document Type: Article

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