The c-kit receptor protein in the testis of green frog Rana esculenta: Seasonal changes in relationship to testosterone titres and spermatological proliferation

Reproduction

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-60

  Raucci, Franca ^a   Di Fiore, Maria Maddalena ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYCLINE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; GERM CELL; GERM LAYER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MITOSIS RATE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; STAINING; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RANA ESCULENTA; SEASONS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

AMPHIBIA; RANA CLAMITANS; RANA ESCULENTA;

EID: 33847391554     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.01009     Document Type: Article

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