Serum reproductive hormone levels and sperm production in male adult rats after treatment with arresting, a fraction obtained from seminiferous tubules conditioned medium

Andrologia

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 351-357

  Del Valle, L J ^a,b   Bustos Obregon E ^a   Gonzales, G F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Conditioned medium; Paracrine regulation; Reproductive hormone levels; Seminiferous tubule; Sperm production

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RETINA S ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPIDIDYMIS; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0346847616     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0303-4569.2003.00592.x     Document Type: Article

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