Hormonal suppression restores fertility in irradiated mice from both endogenous and donor-derived stem spermatogonia

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 225-237

  Wang, Gensheng ^a   Shao, Shan H ^a   Weng, Connie C Y ^a   Wei, Caimiao ^a   Meistrich, Marvin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Hormonal suppression; Irradiation; Mice; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonial transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACYLINE; FLUTAMIDE; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HORMONE INHIBITION; IRRADIATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RECIPIENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TESTIS;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

MAMMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 77955855647     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfq191     Document Type: Article

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