Immunohistochemical and hybridocytochemical study on ghrelin signalling in the rat seminiferous epithelium

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 415-423

  Łukaszyk, Andrzej ^a   Rafińska, Ludmiła ^a   Sawiński, Piotr ^a   Kasprzak, Aldona ^a   Olejniczak, Karolina ^a   Ruciński, Marcin ^a   Ruchała, Marek ^a   Sowiński, Jerzy ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Germ cells; Ghrelin; GHSR 1a; Immunohistochemistry Hybridocytochemistry; Rat seminiferous epithelium

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

RATTUS;

EID: 77149121782     PISSN: 02398508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10042-009-0097-9     Document Type: Article

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