Tubulobulbar complexes are intercellular podosome-like structures that internalize intact intercellular junctions during epithelial remodeling events in the rat testis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 162-174

  Young, J'Nelle S ^a   Guttman, Julian A ^b   Vaid, Kuljeet S ^a   Wayne Vogl, A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Life Sciences Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intercellular junctions; Podosomes; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Tubulobulbar complexes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CORTACTIN; EARLY ENDOSOME ANTIGEN 1; NECTIN 2; NECTIN 3; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOSOME; FROZEN SECTION; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PODOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TUBULOBULBAR COMPLEX;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; INTEGRINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 58149479748     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.070623     Document Type: Article

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