Vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors in normal human testicular tissue

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-20

  Ergun S ^a   Kilic N ^a   Fiedler, W ^a   Mukhopadhyay, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Capillary fenestrations; Human testis; Leydig cells; Sertoli cells; VEGF; VEGF receptors

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGENIC AGENT; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, MITOGEN; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0030808297     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(97)00082-8     Document Type: Article

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