Presence of the brain proteins cerebral cavernous malformation-2 and cerebral cavernous malformation-3 in rat testes and their potential role in experimental varicocele

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2716-2722

  Tanriover, Gamze ^a   Sati, Leyla ^a   Tekcan, Merih ^a   Demir, Necdet ^a   Gunel, Murat ^b   Celik Ozenci, Ciler ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CCM2; CCM3; experimental varicocele; rat testes; spermatogenesis; spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; CEREBRAL CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION 2 PROTEIN; CEREBRAL CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION 3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; VARICOCELE; VEIN LIGATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERMATIDS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 77952100586     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.06.028     Document Type: Article

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