Expression of Fas system-related genes in the testis during development and after toxicant exposure

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 102-103, Issue , 1998, Pages 503-508

  Boekelheide, Kim ^a   Lee, Jeongwu ^a   Shipp, Elizabeth B ^a   Richburg, John H ^a   Li, Gang ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Fas system; Germ cell; Sertoli cell; Testis

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; PHTHALIC ACID 2 ETHYLHEXYL MONOESTER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR-INTERACTING PROTEIN SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TESTIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032435386     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00242-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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