Gene expression during development of fetal and adult Leydig cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1120, Issue , 2007, Pages 16-35

  Dong, Lei ^a   Jelinsky, Scott A ^c   Finger, Joshua N ^c   Johnston, Daniel S ^c   Kopf, Gregory S ^c   Sottas, Chantal M ^b   Hardy, Matthew P ^b   Ge, Ren Shan ^a,b,d  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult Leydig cell; Cell lineage; Development; Fetal Leydig cell; Gene expression; Ontogeny; RNA microarray; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN RELEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FETUS CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LEYDIG CELL; MEMBRANE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SPINDLE CELL; STEM CELL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 38049062619     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1411.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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