Germ cell apoptosis in the testes of Sprague Dawley rats following testosterone withdrawal by ethane 1,2-dimethanesulfonate administration: Relationship to Fas?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-75

  Nandi, Sumon ^a   Banerjee, Partha P ^a   Zirkin, Barry R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMESYLATE; FAS ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MESYLATES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033060569     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.1.70     Document Type: Article

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