Modulating testicular mass in xenografting: A model to explore testis development and endocrine function

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4018-4023

  Schlatt, Stefan ^a,b   Gassei, Kathrin ^b   Westernströer, Birgit ^a,b   Ehmcke, Jens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HAMSTER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL VESICLE; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS TUMOR; TESTIS WEIGHT; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CELLS, CULTURED; CRICETINAE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PHODOPUS; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 77954916967     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0415     Document Type: Article

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