Administration of testosterone inhibits initiation of seminal tubule growth and decreases Sertoli cell number in the earliest period of rat's postnatal development

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Walczak Jȩdrzejowska, Renata ^a   Słowikowska Hilczer, Jolanta ^a   Marchlewska, Katarzyna ^a   Oszukowska, Elzbieta ^a   Kula, Krzysztof ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Estradiol; FSH; Sertoli cell number; Testicular growth; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; ANDROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS WEIGHT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

RATTUS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; RATS; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 75949124745     PISSN: 02398508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10042-009-0094-z     Document Type: Article

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