Disruption of the blood-testis barrier integrity by bisphenol A in vitro: Is this a suitable model for studying blood-testis barrier dynamics?

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2302-2314

  Li, Michelle W M ^a   Mruk, Dolores D ^a   Lee, Will M ^b   Cheng, C Yan ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anchoring junction; Bisphenol A; Seminiferous epithelial cycle; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; OCCLUDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTINYLATION; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL DISRUPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GAP JUNCTION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PERMEABILITY; PHENOLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 69249232433     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2009.05.016     Document Type: Article

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