Leydig cells undergoing apoptosis in the perinatal rat testis

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 355-361

  Yokoi, Hiromichi ^a   Yamama, Yoshihiro ^a   Tsuruo, Yoshihiro ^a   Kawarada, Yoshihiko ^b   Miura, Naoyuki ^b   Sugiyama, Toshihiro ^b   Ishimura, Kazunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Electron microscopy; In situ TdT; Rat testis; Single stranded DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031783104     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.31.355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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