Effect of developmental age or time after transplantation on Sertoli cell number and testicular size in inbred Fischer rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 948-959

  Johnson, Larry ^a   Suggs, Lisa C ^a   Norton, Yvonne M ^a   Zeh, Wayne C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; EAR; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEMINAL VESICLES; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 0029928278     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.5.948     Document Type: Article

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