Inhibin B is the major form of inhibin secreted from testes in male Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

Primates

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 253-257

  Itoh, Mariko ^a   Kondo, Masahiro ^b,c,d   Kojima, Chihiro ^b   Jin, WanZhu ^b,c   Watanabe, Gen ^b,c   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^b,c   Hayashi, Motoharu ^a   Shimizu, Keiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Boston Scientific Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inhibin A; Inhibin B; Japanese macaques; Sertoli cell; Testes

Indexed keywords

PRIMATE;

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; PRIMATES;

INHIBIN; INHIBIN B;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SERTOLI CELL;

ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBINS; MACACA; MALE; SERTOLI CELLS;

EID: 0042852136     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-003-0041-0     Document Type: Article

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