Spermatogenesis in ferret testis xenografts: A new model

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-149

  Gourdon, Jim C ^a   Travis, Alexander J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; MUSTELIDAE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SKIN; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; FERRETS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 80052535039     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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