Clinical aspects of male germ cell apoptosis during testis development and spermatogenesis

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 171-179

  Dunkel, Leo ^a   Hirvonen, Virve ^a   Erkkilä, Krista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Androgens; Apoptosis; Cryptorchidism; Germ cell; hCG; Prepuberty; Programmed cell death; Spermatogenesis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HORMONE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE FUNCTION; GERM CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MALE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030915178     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400234     Document Type: Article

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