Meiosis in autologous ectopic transplants of immature testicular tissue grafted to Callithrix jacchus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 706-713

  Wistuba, Joachim ^a   Luetjens, C Marc ^a   Wesselmann, Ramona ^a   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a   Simoni, Manuela ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorionic gonadotropin; Gametogenesis; Grafting; Hormones; Meiosis; Morphometry; Nonhuman primate; Testis; Testis development; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CDC25A PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BODY WEIGHT; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC TESTIS; EXPLANT; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MARMOSET; MEIOSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTS;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MARMOSETS; PRIMATES;

EID: 33645080174     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.048793     Document Type: Article

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