Generation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate by heme oxygenases in the human testis - A regulatory role for carbon monoxide in sertoli cells?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 651-657

  Middendorff, R ^a   Kumm, M ^a   Davidoff, M S ^a   Holstein, A F ^a   Muller, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cGMP; Sertoli cells; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE SODIUM; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYCLIC GMP; HEMATIN; HEME OXYGENASE; HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTOPORPHYRIN ZINC;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033889349     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod63.2.651     Document Type: Article

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