Cell context-specific expression of primary cilia in the human testis and ciliary coordination of Hedgehog signalling in mouse Leydig cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nygaard, Marie Berg ^a,b   Almstrup, Kristian ^a   Lindbæk, Louise ^b   Christensen, Søren Tvorup ^b   Svingen, Terje ^a,c  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; PROTEIN PATCHED; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; PTCH PROTEIN, HUMAN; PTCH1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMO PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CILIA; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCHED RECEPTORS; PATCHED-1 RECEPTOR; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SERTOLI CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTHENED RECEPTOR; TESTIS;

EID: 84930225381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10364     Document Type: Article

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