Morphological Characterization of the Spermatogonial Subtypes in the Neonatal Mouse Testis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1565-1571

  Dettin, Luis ^a   Ravindranath, Neelakanta ^a   Hofmann, Marie Claude ^b   Dym, Martin ^a,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Early development; Gametogenesis; Male reproductive tract; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGONIUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242298752     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.016394     Document Type: Article

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