Vascular endothelial growth factor A is a putative paracrine regulator in seasonally controlled spermatogenesis: Insights from a ruminant model, the roe deer

Growth Factors

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 202-210

  Schön, Jennifer ^a   Blottner, Steffen ^b   Gabler, Christoph ^a   Fickel, Jörns ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Roe deer; Seasonal reproduction; Spermatogenesis; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BOVIDS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; DEER; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; SEASONS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

CAPREOLUS;

EID: 77952506053     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: 10292292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08977191003587668     Document Type: Article

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