Title : Evidence for the involvement of prothymosin alpha in the spermatogenesis of the frog Rana esculenta.

Pub. Date : 2009 Jan 1

PMID : 18752262






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1 The expression of ptma mRNA increases in the testis of frogs treated with the antiandrogen cyproterone acetate, which blocks the II meiotic division and induces an increase in SPC cysts; on the contrary, it highly decreases in the testis of animals kept at 4 degrees C and treated with human corionic gonadotropin, in concomitance with the induced block of spermatogenesis and the disappearance of meiotic cells in the tubules. Cyproterone Acetate prothymosin alpha Homo sapiens