Androgen aromatization in cryptorchid mouse testis

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-65

  Bilińska, Barbara ^a   Kotula Balak, Małgorzata ^a   Gancarczyk, Monika ^a   Sadowska, Jolanta ^a   Tabarowski, Zbigniew ^a   Wojtusiak, Anna ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Cryptorchidism; Estrogen receptors and ; Immunohistochemistry; Mouse testes; Spermatogenesis; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; ENZYME KINETICS; HORMONES; IMMUNOLOGY; TISSUE;

CYPTORCHID MOUSE TESTIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242501471     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0065-1281-00682     Document Type: Article

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