Apoptosis process in mouse Leydig cells during postnatal development

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 68-73

  Salles Faria, Maria José ^a   Paulino Simões, Zilá Luz ^b   Orive Lunardi, Laurelucia ^b   Hartfelder, Klaus ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Development; Electron microscopy; In situ TdT; Leydig cell; Mouse

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEWBORN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037326066     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927603030101     Document Type: Article

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