Meiotic differentiation of germinal cells in three-week cultures of whole cell population from rat seminiferous tubules

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 379-387

  Hue, Dominique ^a   Staub, Christophe ^a   Perrard Sapori, Marie Hélène ^b   Weiss, Michèle ^b   Nicolle, Jean Claude ^a   Vigier, Michèle ^b   Durand, Philippe ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL VIABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYTENE; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031927601     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.2.379     Document Type: Article

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