Junction Restructuring and Spermatogenesis: The Biology, Regulation, and Implication in Male Contraceptive Development

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 80, Issue , 2007, Pages 57-92

  Yan, Helen H N ^a   Mruk, Dolores D ^a   Cheng, C Yan ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; MALE CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL JUNCTION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; DRUG DESIGN; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 35348883542     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(07)80002-0     Document Type: Review

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