Effects of Ethanol on Embryonic and Neonatal Rat Testes in Organ Cultures

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 653-660

  Li, Hui ^a   Kim, Kwan Hee ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Gonocytes; Seminiferous cords; Sertoli cells; Testis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MULLERIAN INHIBITING HORMONE; MULLERIAN-INHIBITING HORMONE; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; ORGAN CULTURE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPRODUCTION; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS; METABOLISM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOCYTE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETUS; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GLYCOPROTEINS; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0642373689     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2003.tb02723.x     Document Type: Article

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