Establishment of long-term monolayer cultures of somatic cells from human fetal testes and expansion of peritubular myoid cells in the presence of androgen

Reproduction

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 749-757

  Cowan, Gillian ^a   Childs, Andrew J ^a   Anderson, Richard A ^a   Saunders, Philippa T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; WT1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL;

ANDROGENS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; MULLERIAN DUCTS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

ERINACEIDAE; MYOIDA;

EID: 77949813744     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0532     Document Type: Article

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