Sertoli cell maturation in men with azoospermia of different etiologies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 904-909

  Maymon, Batia Bar Shira ^a,c   Yogev, Leah ^b   Paz, Gedalia ^b   Kleiman, Sandra E ^b   Schreiber, Letizia ^a   Botchan, Amnon ^b   Hauser, Ron ^b   Yavetz, Haim ^b  

^a Institute of Pathology   (Israel)

^b Institute for the Study of Fertility   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anti M llerian hormone; Cytokeratin 18; Nonobstructive azoospermia; Pairing impairment; Sertoli cells

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; CYTOKERATIN 18; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; OBSTRUCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TESTIS BIOPSY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL AGING; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS;

EID: 0036253320     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)03060-1     Document Type: Article

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