Significance of apoptosis in the temporal and stage-specific loss of germ cells in the adult rat after gonadotropin deprivation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1193-1201

  Sinha Hikim, Amiya P ^a   Rajavashisth, Tripathi B ^a   Sinha Hikim, Indrani ^a   Lue, Yanhe ^a   Bonavera, Juan J ^a   Leung, Andrew ^a   Wang, Christina ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GERM CELLS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 15444344746     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.1193     Document Type: Article

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