Effects of flutamide in the rat testis on the expression of occludin, an integral member of the tight junctions

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 217-222

  Gye, Myung Chan ^a   Ohsako, Seiichiroh ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiandrogen; Flutamide; Testis, rat; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; CORN OIL; FLUTAMIDE; OCCLUDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0038732329     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(03)00178-4     Document Type: Article

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