Testicular cell lines

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 228, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 53-65

  Rahman, Nafis A ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene targeting; Gonadal tumorigenesis; Leydig and Sertoli cell lines; Spermatogenic cells; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL LINE; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SERTOLI CELL TUMOR; TESTIS CELL; TESTIS TUMOR; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VIRUS ONCOGENE; WART VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; HUMANS; MALE; TESTIS;

EID: 8344284999     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2003.05.001     Document Type: Review

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