Impaired spermatogenesis in the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica: Possibility of the existence of factors that regulate entry of germ cells into meiosis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 685-691

  Miura, Takeshi ^a   Kawamura, Seichi ^a   Miura, Chiemi ^a   Yamauchi, Kohei ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

11 ketotestosterone; Eel; Meiosis; Spermatogenesis; Teleost

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; GERM CELL; GROWTH REGULATION; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TELEOST; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ANGUILLA JAPONICA; ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; JAPONICA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0030816884     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-5-00004.x     Document Type: Article

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