Donor Sertoli cells transplanted into irradiated rat testes stimulate partial recovery of endogenous spermatogenesis

Reproduction

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 497-508

  Zhang, Zhen ^a,b   Shao, Shan ^a   Shetty, Gunapala ^a   Meistrich, Marvin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERSTITIUM; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; ANIMAL; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWIS RAT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC RAT; TRANSPLANTATION;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 66949175253     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0120     Document Type: Article

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