Organotypic cultures of prepubertal mouse testes: A method to study androgen action in sertoli cells while preserving their natural environment

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1083-1092

  De Gendt, Karel ^a   McKinnell, Chris ^b   Willems, Ariane ^a   Saunders, Philippa T K ^b   Sharpe, Richard M ^b   Atanassova, Nina ^c   Swinnen, Johannes V ^a   Verhoeven, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Bicalutamide; Cell selective knockout; Follicle stimulating hormone; Ketoconazole

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIANDROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; KETOCONAZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; METRIBOLONE; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; DRD4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; EPPIN PROTEIN, MOUSE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RHOX5 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRD4 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GPD1 GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOX5 GENE; SERTOLI CELL; SPINLW1 GENE; TESTIS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCEROLPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGAN SIZE; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 73949126591     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.078360     Document Type: Article

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