Transcriptional profiling of the hormone-responsive stages of spermatogenesis reveals cell-, stage-, and hormone-specific events

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5074-5084

  O'Donnell, Liza ^a   Pratis, Kyriakos ^a   Wagenfeld, Andrea ^b   Gottwald, Ulrich ^b   Müller, Jörg ^b   Leder, Gabriele ^b   McLachlan, Robert I ^a   Stanton, Peter G ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; DNA; FOLLITROPIN; INTEGRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIPID METABOLISM; LYSOSOME; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERTOLI CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70350290232     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0755     Document Type: Article

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