Spermatogenesis does not require the local production of follistatin

Reproduction

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 601-605

  Lin, S Y ^a,c   Morrison, J R ^a   Matzuk, M M ^b   de Kretser, David M ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLISTATIN; RAG1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; FOLLISTATIN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORCHIECTOMY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 33750507927     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.01172     Document Type: Article

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