Morphogenesis of the acrosome during the final steps of rat spermiogenesis with special reference to tubulobulbar complexes

Anatomical Record

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-201

  Tanii, Ichiro ^a   Yoshinaga, Kazuya ^a   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerosome; Monoclonal antibody; Morphogenesis; Sertoli cell; Spermatids; Spermiogenesis; Tubulobulbar complexes

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TUBULOBULBAR COMPLEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033214110     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0185(19991001)256:2<195::aid-ar10>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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