Single exposure to heat induces stage-specific germ cell apoptosis in rats: Role of intratesticular testosterone on stage specificity

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1709-1717

  Lue, Yah He ^a   Sinha Hikim, Amiya P ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a   Im, Paul ^b   Taing, Khay Seng ^b   Bui, Tan ^b   Leung, Andrew ^a   Wang, Christina ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b California Acad of Math/Sci   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0033058462     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.4.6629     Document Type: Article

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