Reproductive aging in the Brown Norway rat is characterized by accelerated germ cell apoptosis and is not altered by luteinizing hormone replacement

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 509-518

  Wang, Christina ^a   Sinha Hikim, Amiya P ^a   Lue, Van He ^a   Leung, Andrew ^a   Baravarian, Sima ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Leydig cell dysfunction; Spermatogesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; GERM CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS;

EID: 0344132640     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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