β-nerve growth factor participates in an auto/paracrine pathway of regulation of the meiotic differentiation of rat spermatocytes

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-62

  Perrard, Marie Hélène ^a,b,c   Vigier, Michèle ^a,b,c   Damestoy, Anne ^a,b,c   Chapat, Clément ^a,b,c   Silandre, Dorothée ^b,d   Rudkin, Brian B ^e   Durand, Philippe ^a,b,c  

^a HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^e Univ Claude Bernard   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

K 252A; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR BETA SUBUNIT; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P75; PROTEIN P75 NTR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GERM CELL; HALF LIFE TIME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; KNOCKOUT GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NGF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYTENE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRKA GENE;

ANIMALS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; CARBAZOLES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MEIOSIS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845454073     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.20805     Document Type: Article

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