Secretome analysis of testicular peritubular cells: A window into the human testicular microenvironment and the spermatogonial stem cell niche in man

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1259-1269

  Flenkenthaler, Florian ^a   Windschüttl, Stefanie ^a   Fröhlich, Thomas ^a   Schwarzer, J Ullrich ^b   Mayerhofer, Artur ^a   Arnold, Georg J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Andrologie Centrum Muenchen   (Germany)

Author keywords

human testis; mass spectrometry; peritubular cells; secretome; spermatogenesis; stem cell niche

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; GROWTH FACTOR; PENTRAXIN 3;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE ONTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOMICS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; TESTICULAR PERITUBULAR CELL; TESTIS CELL;

ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTIS;

EID: 84896778281     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr400769z     Document Type: Article

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