Follicle-stimulating hormone regulates both sertoli cell and spermatogonial populations in the adult photoinhibited Djungarian hamster testis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1187-1193

  Meachem, Sarah J ^a,b,d   Stanton, Peter G ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^b,c  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flutamide; Follicle stimulating hormone; Germ cells; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; Stereology; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEREOLOGY; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FLUTAMIDE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; PITUITARY GLAND; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 17444432214     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.039321     Document Type: Article

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