Testicular concentration of meiosis-activating sterol is associated with normal testicular descent

Theriogenology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 983-992

  Bogh, I B ^a   Baltsen, M ^b   Byskov, A G ^b   Greve, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; Equine; Meiosis activating sterol; Spermatogenesis; Stallion

Indexed keywords

4,4 DIMETHYLCHOLESTA 8,14 DIEN 3 OL; 4,4-DIMETHYLCHOLESTA-8,14-DIEN-3-OL; 7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; MEIOSIS ACTIVATING STEROL; STEROL; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORGAN WEIGHT; PUBERTY; SEASON; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROL SYNTHESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DESCENT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHOLESTADIENOLS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEASONS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

BOVINAE; EQUIDAE; MURINAE;

EID: 0035280910     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(01)00459-9     Document Type: Article

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