Retinoic acid receptors and retinoid X receptors in the rat testis during fetal and postnatal development: Immunolocalization and implication in the control of the number of gonocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1548-1557

  Boulogne, Barbara ^a   Levacher, Christine ^a,c   Durand, Philippe ^b   Habert, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032709984     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.6.1548     Document Type: Article

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