Sertoli cells control peritubular myoid cell fate and support adult leydig cell development in the prepubertal testis

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2139-2149

  Rebourcet, Diane ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Peter J ^b   Pitetti, Jean Luc ^c   Monteiro, Ana ^b   O'Hara, Laura ^a   Milne, Laura ^a   Tsai, Yi Ting ^a   Cruickshanks, Lyndsey ^a   Riethmacher, Dieter ^d   Guillou, Florian ^e   Mitchell, Rod T ^a   van't Hof, Rob ^f   Freeman, Tom C ^g   Nef, Serge ^c   Smith, Lee B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diphtheria; Leydig; Male fertility; Mouse; Peritubular myoid; Sertoli; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENITOR CELL LINE; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

DIPHTHERIA; LEYDIG; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; PERITUBULAR MYOID; SERTOLI; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS;

EID: 84900014658     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.107029     Document Type: Article

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