Hormonal and genetic control of germ cell apoptosis in the testis

Reviews of Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 38-47

  Hikim, Amiya P Sinha ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

APOPTOSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GERM CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033022705     PISSN: 13596004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ror.0.0040038     Document Type: Review

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