Apoptosis during spermatogenesis in the spotted ray Torpedo marmorata

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-348

  Prisco, Marina ^a,b   Liguoro, Annamaria ^a   Comitato, Raffaella ^a   Cardone, Anna ^a   D'Onghia, Barbara ^a   Ricchiari, Loredana ^a   Angelini, Francesco ^a   Andreuccetti, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Comparata   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cartilaginous fish; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAK;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BAK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; RNA ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TORPEDO MARMORATA; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RNA; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TORPEDO;

CHONDRICHTHYES; RAJA MONTAGUI; TORPEDO; TORPEDO MARMORATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037353835     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10267     Document Type: Article

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