Endocrine modulation of the recipient environment affects development of bovine testis tissue ectopically grafted in mice

Reproduction

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-51

  Rodriguez Sosa, Jose R ^a,b   Costa, Guilherme M J ^c   Rathi, Rahul ^a   França, Luiz R ^c   Dobrinski, Ina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLINE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ECTOPIC TISSUE; GERM CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; CATTLE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MICE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

BOVINAE; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84863227315     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-12-0020     Document Type: Article

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