Developing mouse sertoli cells in vitro: Effects on developing ovaries in co-culture and production of anti-Müllerian hormone

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-86

  Mackay, Sarah ^a,b   Willerton, Louise ^a   Ballingall, Christine L ^a   Henderson, Nicola J S ^a   Smith, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti m llerian hormone; Basement membrane; Cell culture; Developing sertoli cells; Gonadal differentiation

Indexed keywords

MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GERM CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS; VIRILIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OVARY; PREGNANCY; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS;

EID: 4344655973     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079183     Document Type: Article

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