The effect of testicular macrophages, macrophage-conditioned medium and interleukin-1α on bank vole Leydig cell steroidogenesis

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 262-271

  Kmicikiewicz, I ^a   Wojtusiak, A ^a   Bilinska B ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bank vole; Interleukin 1 ; Leydig cell cultures; Macrophages; Testosterone secretion

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOLOGY; REARING; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS CELL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; VOLE;

EID: 0033040434     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1212110     Document Type: Article

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