Glucocorticoid induces apoptosis in rat Leydig cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 130-138

  Hui Bao, Gao ^a   Ming Han, Tong ^a   Yan Qiang, H U ^a   Qing Su, Guo ^a   Renshan, G E ^b   Hardy, Matthew P ^b,c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LABELING; CELL MATURATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEROID METABOLISM;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLORING AGENTS; CORTICOSTERONE; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE; TRYPAN BLUE;

EID: 0036142572     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.143.1.130     Document Type: Article

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