Testicular somatic cells, not gonocytes, are the major source of functional activin a during testis morphogenesis

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4358-4367

  Archambeault, Denise R ^a   Tomaszewski, Jessica ^a   Childs, Andrew J ^b   Anderson, Richard A ^b   Yao, Humphrey Hung Chang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ANDROGEN; FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORPHOGENESIS; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 80054961912     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1288     Document Type: Article

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