Progenitor cells of the testosterone-producing Leydig cells revealed

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 935-944

  Davidoff, Michail S ^a   Middendorff, Ralf ^a,d   Enikolopov, Grigori ^c   Riethmacher, Dieter ^b   Holstein, Adolf F ^a   Müller, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NESTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL; TISSUE REPAIR; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; ORGANOGENESIS; PERICYTES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEM CELLS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10344249405     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200409107     Document Type: Article

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