Elevation of plasma prolactin concentrations by low temperature is the cause of spermatogonial cell death in the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 302-311

  Yazawa, Takashi ^a   Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^b   Kikuyama, Sakae ^b   Abé, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM;

EID: 0032936079     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7207     Document Type: Article

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