Adrenocorticotropic hormone affects nonapoptotic cell death of undifferentiated germ cells in the fetal mouse testis: In vivo study by exo utero transplantation of corticotropic tumor cells into embryos

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-86

  Nimura, Masayuki ^a   Udagawa, Jun ^a   Otani, Hiroki ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACTH; AtT20; CDH1; E cadherin; Exo utero cell transplantation; Mouse embryo; Spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HISTONE H3; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 5 RECEPTOR; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UVOMORULIN;

ACTH SECRETING CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; EMBRYO; FETUS; GERM CELL; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 43049091527     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2008.00183.x     Document Type: Article

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