Hepatocyte growth factor is a mouse fetal leydig cell terminal differentiation factor

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Ricci, Giulia ^a   Guglielmo, Maria Cristina ^b   Caruso, Maria ^b   Ferranti, Francesca ^b   Canipari, Rita ^b   Galdieri, Michela ^a   Catizone, Angela ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Fetal testis; HGF; Leydig cells

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CASPASE 3; INSULIN; INSULIN LIKE 3; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CASP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HGF PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE PROTEIN; NESTIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SURVIVAL RATE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE STRAIN; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ORGANOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASPASE 3; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGANOGENESIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

EID: 84877675706     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.104638     Document Type: Article

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