Expression and role of receptor 1 for orexins in seminiferous tubules of rat testis

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 348, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 601-607

  Assisi, Loredana ^a   Tafuri, Simona ^a   Liguori, Giovanna ^a   Paino, Salvatore ^b   Pavone, Luigi Michele ^a   Staiano, Norma ^a   Vittoria, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Male); Orexin A; Rat (Wistar; Receptor 1 for orexin; Testis; Testosterone synthesis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; OREXIN 1 RECEPTOR; OREXIN A; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TISSUE SLICE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTOSTERONE;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84866330675     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1394-8     Document Type: Article

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