An engineered 3D blood-testis barrier model for the assessment of reproductive toxicity potential

Biomaterials

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4492-4505

  Legendre, A ^a   Froment, P ^b   Desmots, S ^a   Lecomte, A ^a   Habert, R ^c   Lemazurier, E ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^b UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTIFICIAL EXTRACELLULAR MATRIXES; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; MATRIX COMPOSITION; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITIES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

CELLS;

CLAUDIN 11;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNODETECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA SEQUENCE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77950043413     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.02.029     Document Type: Article

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