The sertoli cell: Novel clinical potentiality

Hormones

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 504-514

  Iliadou, Paschalia K ^a   Tsametis, Christos ^a   Kaprara, Athina ^a   Papadimas, Ioannis ^a   Goulis, Dimitrios G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anti M llerian hormone; Inhibin; Sertoli cell; Spermatogenesis; Testicular sperm extraction

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INHIBIN;

AZOOSPERMIA; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SUBFERTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FERTILITY; MALE; METABOLISM; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOMARKERS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MALE; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SERTOLI CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84957675070     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1648     Document Type: Review

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