Activin maintains the condensed type of mitochondria in germ cells

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 111-117

  Meinhardt, Andreas ^a   McFarlane, James R ^b   Seitz, Jurgen ^b   De Kretser, David M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activin; Follistatin; Germ cells; Inhibin; Mitochondria; Paracrine interaction; Seminiferous epithelium; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; INHIBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GERM CELL; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ACTIVINS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INHIBINS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 0034715561     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(00)00308-7     Document Type: Article

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