Relaxin-like factor: A highly specific and constitutive new marker for Leydig cells in the human testis

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 459-466

  Ivell, Richard ^a   Balvers, Marga ^a   Domagalski, Roger ^a   Ungefroren, Hendrik ^a   Hunt, Nicholas ^a   Schulze, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 HSD; Ley I L; Leydig cells; Relaxin; Testis

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INSULIN; LEYDIG INSULIN LIKE PROTEIN; LEYDIG INSULIN-LIKE PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSULIN; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, LH; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS;

EID: 0031160524     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/3.6.459     Document Type: Article

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