Apoptosis is physiologically restricted to a specialized cytoplasmic compartment in rat spermatids

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1541-1547

  Blanco Rodríguez, Josefa ^a,b   Martínez García, Carmen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; LIPOCORTIN 5; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344462713     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.6.1541     Document Type: Article

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