Developmental schedule of the postnatal rat testis determined by flow cytometry

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-92

  Malkov, Mira ^a   Fisher, Yonit ^a   Don, Jeremy ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HAPLOIDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031745072     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.1.84     Document Type: Article

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