Mast cells in human testicular biopsies from patients with mixed atrophy: Increased numbers, heterogeneity, and expression of cyclooxygenase 2 and prostaglandin D2 synthase

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-313

  Welter, Harald ^a   Köhn, Frank M ^b   Mayerhofer, Artur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Andrologicum   (Germany)

Author keywords

COX2; male infertility; Mast cells; PGDS H; testis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN D SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN D2 SYNTHASE; TRYPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER MICRODISSECTION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MAST CELL; MIXED ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ATROPHY; BIOPSY; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; LIPOCALINS; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICRODISSECTION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRYPTASES;

EID: 79960639747     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.05.035     Document Type: Article

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