Analysis of fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) gene transcription and protein distribution in the bovine testis

Growth Factors

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 295-301

  Abd Elmaksoud, Ahmed ^a,b   Vermehren, Margarete ^a   Nützel, Friedrich ^a   Habermann, Felix A ^a   Sinowatz, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Fibroblast growth factors; Immunohistochemistry; Leydig cells; Myofibroblasts; Spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEYDIG CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PARENCHYMA; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETE TESTIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 31144462652     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: 10292292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08977190500233706     Document Type: Article

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