Hedgehog signalling promotes germ cell survival in the rat testis

Reproduction

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 711-721

  Mäkelä, Juho Antti ^a   Saario, Vuokko ^a   Bourguiba Hachemi, Sonia ^a   Nurmio, Mirja ^a   Jahnukainen, Kirsi ^b,c   Parvinen, Martti ^a   Toppari, Jorma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GERM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL SURVIVAL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; MALE; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PIPERAZINES; PYRIMIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERATOGENS; TESTIS; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS;

ERINACEIDAE; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 80355125792     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0110     Document Type: Article

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