Follicle-stimulating hormone-independent functions of primate sertoli cells: Potential implications in the diagnosis and management of male infertility

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1062-1068

  Devi, Yendrembam Sangeeta ^a,b   Sarda, Kanchan ^a   Stephen, Benjamin ^a,c   Nagarajan, P ^a   Majumdar, Subeer S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Biocon Limited   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; ANDROGEN; CYCLIC AMP; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN B; LACTIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE RESPONSE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; DNA PRIMERS; ESTRADIOL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INFERTILITY, MALE; LACTATES; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PUBERTY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELLS;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33644829104     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-2072     Document Type: Article

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