Gonadotropins regulate rat testicular tight junctions in vivo

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2911-2922

  McCabe, Mark J ^a,b   Tarulli, Gerard A ^a   Meachem, Sarah J ^a   Robertson, David M ^a   Smooker, Peter M ^b   Stanton, Peter G ^a,c  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLINE; ANDROGEN; BIOTIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLAUDIN 11; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN ANTAGONIST; HORMONE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OCCLUDIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CLDN11 PROTEIN, RAT; GONADORELIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GERM CELL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TIGHT JUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 77954461681     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-1278     Document Type: Article

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