Testicular leukocytes: What are they doing?

Reviews of Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-47

  Hedger, Mark P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LEUKOCYTE; LEYDIG CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICE; RATS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030970892     PISSN: 13596004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ror.0.0020038     Document Type: Article

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