Cycloheximide prevents production of arresting, a fraction of 30-50 kDa obtained from seminiferous tubule conditioned medium

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-364

  Gonzales, Gustavo F ^a   Hartinger, Stella ^a   Flores, Yetssy ^a   Zárate, Kelly ^a   Yi, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Arresting; Conditioned medium; Cycloheximide; Seminiferous tubule; Sperm production; Transillumination

Indexed keywords

ARRESTING; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDIDYMIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STUDENT T TEST; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; ARRESTIN; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RATS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERM COUNT; TESTIS;

EID: 10644219546     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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