Determination of apoptosis through Bax expression in cryptorchid testis: An experimental study

Pathology and Oncology Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 170-173

  Dündar, Mehmet ^a   Koçak, Izzet ^a   Çulhaci, Nil ^a   Erol, Haluk ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bax; Spermatocyte; Spermatogonia; Undescended testis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS WEIGHT;

EID: 27644553914     PISSN: 12194956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02893394     Document Type: Article

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