Spontaneous germ cell apoptosis in humans: Evidence for ethnic differences in the susceptibility of germ cells to programmed cell death

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 152-156

  Sinha Hikim, Amiya P ^a   Wang, Christina ^a   Lue, Yanhe ^a,d   Johnson, Larry ^b   Wang, X H ^c   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Jiangsu Family Planning Research Institute   (China)

^d Box 446 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE;

EID: 14444284368     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.83.1.4485     Document Type: Article

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