Seasonal Morphological Variations and Age-Related Changes of the Seminal Vesicle of Viscacha (Lagostomus maximus maximus): An Ultrastructural and Immunohistochemical Study

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 886-895

  Chaves, Eduardo M ^a   Aguilera Merlo, Claudia ^a   Cruceño, Albana ^a   Fogal, Teresa ^b   Piezzi, Ramón ^b   Scardapane, Luis ^a   Dominguez, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Impuber; Seasonal reproduction; Seminal vesicles; Testosterone levels

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM; GONAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAGOSTOMUS MAXIMUS MAXIMUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMINAL VESICLE; STROMA CELL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GLYCOGEN; GOLGI APPARATUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REPRODUCTION; RODENTIA; SEASONS; SEMINAL VESICLES; STROMAL CELLS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; LAGOSTOMUS MAXIMUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84859735172     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22434     Document Type: Article

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