Identification of a novel population of adrenal-like cells in the mammalian testis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 250-256

  Val, Pierre ^a   Jeays Ward, Katherine ^a   Swain, Amanda ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adrenal development; Adrenal rests; Cell migration; Gonad development; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; STEROID; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; GONAD; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MAMMAL; MESONEPHROS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33749528511     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.07.030     Document Type: Article

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