Estrogen promotes Leydig cell engulfment by macrophages in male infertility

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2709-2721

  Yu, Wanpeng ^a   Zheng, Han ^a   Lin, Wei ^a   Tajima, Astushi ^b   Zhang, Yong ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^c   Zhang, Hongwen ^d   Wu, Jihua ^d   Han, Daishu ^c   Rahman, Nafis A ^e   Korach, Kenneth S ^f   Gao, George Fu ^g   Inoue, Ituro ^b   Li, Xiangdong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CD69 ANTIGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LETROZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURFACE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEYDIG CELL; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEYDIG CELLS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902137712     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI59901     Document Type: Article

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