The Fas system may have a role in male reproduction

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 1168-1178

  Celik Ozenci, Ciler ^a   Sahin, Zeliha ^a   Ustunel, Ismail ^a   Akkoyunlu, Gokhan ^a   Erdogru, Tibet ^a   Turkay Korgun, Emin ^a   Baykara, Mehmet ^a   Demir, Ramazan ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; Fas; FasL; immunohistochemistry; rat; Testis; TUNEL; varicocele; Western blot

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; PARAFFIN;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; EMBEDDING; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY VEIN; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VARICOCELE; VEIN LIGATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTORS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 33645729670     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.08.058     Document Type: Article

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