Proliferative phase Sertoli cells display a developmentally regulated response to activin in vitro

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 474-483

  Buzzard, Jeremy J ^a   Farnworth, Paul G ^b   De Kretser, David M ^a   O'Connor, Anne E ^a   Wreford, Nigel G ^a   Morrison, John R ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN A; BETA ACTIN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS; ACTIVINS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DRUG SYNERGISM; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; INHIBINS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, FSH; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 0037320544     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220595     Document Type: Article

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