Growth differentiation factor 9 is a germ cell regulator of sertoli cell function

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2481-2490

  Nicholls, Peter K ^a,b   Harrison, Craig A ^a,b   Gilchrist, Robert B ^c   Farnworth, Paul G ^a   Stanton, Peter G ^a,b  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN LIKE KINASE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1B; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 2; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; INHIBIN B; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BMP15 PROTEIN, RAT; GDF9 PROTEIN, RAT; INHIBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; INHIBINS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 66449121462     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-1048     Document Type: Article

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