How much LH do the Leydig cells see?

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 375-382

  Setchell, B P ^b,c   Pakarinen, P ^a   Huhtaniemi, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CIRCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXPOSURE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS CELL; VENOUS BLOOD;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 1842472508     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1750375     Document Type: Review

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