Transport of organic cations across the blood-testis barrier

Molecular Pharmaceutics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 600-607

  Maeda, Tomoji ^a   Goto, Akihiko ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^a   Tamai, Ikumi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

OCT; OCTN; Organic cation; Sertoli cell; Testis; Transporter

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CATION; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 1; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 3; TETRYLAMMONIUM; TETRYLAMMONIUM C 14; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CATION TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CARNITINE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL POLARITY; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34548163424     PISSN: 15438384     EISSN: 15438392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mp070023l     Document Type: Article

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