Characterization of lymphocytes in the adult rat testis by flow cytometry: Effects of activin and transforming growth factor β on lymphocyte subsets in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 943-951

  Tompkins, Andrew B ^a   Hutchinson, Paul ^b   De Kretser, David M ^a   Hedger, Mark P ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; ESTERASE; INHIBIN A; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEYDIG CELL; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TESTIS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENT DYES; INHIBINS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031943966     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.4.943     Document Type: Article

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