Expression patterns of DLK1 and INSL3 identify stages of Leydig cell differentiation during normal development and in testicular pathologies, including testicular cancer and Klinefelter syndrome

Human Reproduction

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1637-1650

  Lottrup, G ^a   Nielsen, J E ^a   Maroun, L L ^a   Moller L M A ^b   Yassin, M ^a   Leffers, H ^a   Skakkebaek N E ^a   Rajpert De Meyts, E ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human testis; Klinefelter syndrome; Leydig cells; Peritubular cells; Testicular dysgenesis syndrome

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; DELTA LIKE HOMOLOG 1; ESTRADIOL; FETAL ANTIGEN; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; INSULIN LIKE PEPTIDE 3; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; DLK1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INSULIN; LEYDIG INSULIN-LIKE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NR2F2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; TESTIS TUMOR;

ACTINS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; COUP TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR II; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84904283811     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deu124     Document Type: Article

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