Role of neurotropins in rat embryonic testis morphogenesis (Cord formation)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 132-142

  Levine, Elena ^a,b   Cupp, Andrea S ^a   Skinner, Michael K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033980930     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod62.1.132     Document Type: Article

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