Characterization of bovine fetal Leydig cells by KIT expression

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 623-632

  Tsikolia, Nikoloz ^a   Merkwitz, Claudia ^a   Sass, Kristina ^a   Sakurai, Michiharu ^b   Spanel Borowski, Katharina ^a   Ricken, Albert Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal Leydig cells; Growth factors; KIT; Testis

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME P450; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; GONAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; FETUS; GONADS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

BOVINAE;

EID: 71349087495     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-009-0640-y     Document Type: Article

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