Identification of meiotic and postmeiotic gene expression in testicular tissue of patients histologically classified as Sertoli cell only

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 785-790

  Patrizio, Pasquale ^a   Ricci, Stacey M ^a   Tomaszewski, John E ^a   Hecht, Norman B ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Germ cell; Male infertility; Sertoli cell only; Testicular biopsy

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE P1; PROTAMINE P2; TRANSITION PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; ISOENZYMES; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MEIOSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTAMINES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTIS;

EID: 0033795708     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)01515-6     Document Type: Article

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