EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX IN TESTICULAR-DIFFERENTIATION
EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX IN TESTICULAR-DIFFERENTIATION
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1984.tb38302.x
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
LAKKALAPARANKO, T
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作者:
PELLINIEMI, LJ;PARANKO, J;LAKKALAPARANKO, T
The crucial and definitive event in the formation of a testis from a sexually indifferent gonad is the organization of epithelial testicular cords.'The indifferent gonad consists of histologically unorganized gonadal blastema in the medulla and a cortex of stratified surface epithelium, which at places is continuous with the medullary blastema.'.* The earliest signs of the initiation of epithelial cord formation are the attachment of adjacent cells by plasma membrane apposition and the appearance of basement membrane-like material along the future basal surface of the Ever since the introduction of the HY theory about the mechanisms of the testis cord formation by Wachtel et al. 4 the cell surface events have received the most attention among the interested investigators.'.'However, an epithelium is not only defined by close mutual adherence of particular cells but rather by production of a basement membrane as a physicochemical barrier against the surrounding tissue. Any regulatory factor involved in the epithelial organization must therefore account for one or both of these events. The temporal