Acute testicular ischemia results in germ cell-specific apoptosis in the rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1267-1274

  Turner, T T ^a   Tung, Kenneth S K ^a   Tomomasa, Hiroshi ^a   Wilson, Leigh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS TORSION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030688048     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.6.1267     Document Type: Article

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