Leydig cell transplantation restores androgen production in surgically castrated prepubertal rats

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 405-409

  Sun, Jie ^a   Xi, Ye Bin ^b   Zhang, Zhong De ^a   Shen, Ping ^a   Li, Huai Yuan ^a   Yin, Min Zhi ^a   Li, Wei Yi ^b   Shi, Cheng Ren ^c  

^a SHANGHAI CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATED MALE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOGONADISM; LEYDIG CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PREPUBERTY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 69749115965     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2009.22     Document Type: Article

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