Pre- and postmeiotic expression of male germ cell-specific genes throughout 2-week cocultures of rat germinal and Sertoli cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 68-76

  Weiss, Michèle ^a   Vigier, Michèle ^a   Hue, Dominique ^b   Perrard Sapori, Marie Hélène ^a   Marret, Cécile ^a   Avallet, Odile ^a   Durand, Philippe ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM LAYER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; STATHMIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030920731     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.68     Document Type: Article

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