Pulsatile stimulation with recombinant single chain human luteinizing hormone elicits precocious Sertoli cell proliferation in the juvenile male rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 82-88

  Ramaswamy, Suresh ^a   Plant, Tony M ^a   Marshall, Gary R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FSH; LH; Puberty; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; LEYDIG CELL; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033944266     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod63.1.82     Document Type: Article

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