Isolation and cultivation of human testicular peritubular cells: A new model for the investigation of fibrotic processes in the human testis and male infertility

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1956-1960

  Albrecht, Martin ^a   Rämsch, Romi ^a   Köhn, Frank M ^b   Schwarzer, J Ullrich ^c   Mayerhofer, Artur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Department of Urology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TRYPTASE;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPLANT; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE INFERTILITY; MAST CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

CALCIUM; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, HISTAMINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS;

EID: 33646405728     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-2169     Document Type: Article

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