Increment of murine spermatogonial cell number by gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue is independent of stem cell factor c-kit signal

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2304-2313

  Ohmura, Masako ^a   Ogawa, Takehiko ^a   Ono, Michio ^a   Dezawa, Mari ^a   Hosaka, Masahiko ^a   Kubota, Yoshinobu ^a   Sawada, Hajime ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sperm; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; LEUPRORELIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; GERM CELLS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUPROLIDE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; ORGAN SIZE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0037498621     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.013276     Document Type: Article

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