Expression of FGF2 and TGFα and testis morphology during testicular hypertrophy subsequent to hemicastration in the neonatal boar

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 961-966

  Wells, R ^a   Scott, P T ^a   Harrison, D K ^a   Wreford, N G ^b   Duckett, R ^c   Johnston, S D ^a   D'Occhio, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Growth factors; Sertoli cells; Stereology; Testis

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS WEIGHT; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPERTROPHY; LEYDIG CELL; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; SWINE; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA PRIMERS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HYPERTROPHY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SUS SCROFA; TESTIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

EID: 42949104541     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20743     Document Type: Article

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