The effect of testicular macrophages, macrophage-conditioned medium and interleukin-1α on the cytoskeleton of bank vole Leydig cells

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 281-287

  Bilinska B ^a   Kmicikiewicz, I ^a   Pierscinski A ^a   Sadowska, J ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bank voles; In vitro; Leydig cells; Microfilaments; Microtubules

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOSKELETON; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOLOGY; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; VOLE;

EID: 17744415782     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1212113     Document Type: Article

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