Increased Apoptosis of Spermatogenic Cells in Cryptorchidism Rat Model and Its Correlation With Transforming Growth Factor Beta Type II Receptor

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 992-998

  Yuan, Jian Lin ^a   Zhang, Yun Tao ^a   Wang, Yong ^b  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HISTOLOGY; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; NEWBORN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; ORGAN WEIGHT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RATS; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; SMAD PROTEINS; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 77950252344     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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