Ontogeny of leptin and its receptor expression in mouse testis during the postnatal period

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 874-880

  Herrid, Muren ^a,b   O'Shea, Tim ^a   Mcfarlane, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leptin; Leptin receptors; Postnatal development; Testis

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GERM CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEPTIN; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGONIA;

MUS;

EID: 41149134549     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20796     Document Type: Review

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