Loss and recovery of androgen receptor protein expression in the adult rat testis following androgen withdrawal by ethane dimethanesulfonate

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-86

  Atanassova, Nina ^a   Koeva, Yvetta ^b   Bakalska, Mariana ^a   Pavlova, Ekaterina ^a   Nikolov, Boycho ^a   Davidoff, Michail ^c  

^a Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences   (Bulgaria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; EDS; Leydig cells; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMESYLATE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; TIME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646415650     PISSN: 02398508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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