Where do adult Leydig cells come from?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1019-1020

  Zirkin, Barry R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MESENCHYME CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NOTE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PUERPERIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; PROGESTERONE REDUCTASE; RATS; TESTIS;

EID: 77953838932     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.084111     Document Type: Note

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