Sertoli cell-specific deletion of the androgen receptor compromises testicular immune privilege in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 254-260

  Meng, Jing ^a   Greenlee, Anne R ^b   Taub, Chloe J ^b   Braun, Robert E ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens androgen receptor; Blood testis barrier; Immune privilege; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AUTOANTIGEN; CELL ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; GERM CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE PRIVILEGE; IMMUNITY; INTERSTITIUM; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; TIGHT JUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MICE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80052550535     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.090621     Document Type: Article

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