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Abstract
The differentiation capacity of the rat epididymis after depletion of androgen was studied in organ culture and in castrated rats. The differentiation of "narrow cells' in 5- and 10-day-old explants and in 10-day-old castrated rats suggests that: (i) the testicular androgens are not essential for their differentiation, (ii) a differential androgen dependence exists among the epididymal cell types, (iii) the undifferentiated epithelial cells are the precursors of the narrow cells.Entities:
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Year: 1985 PMID： 4028145 DOI： 10.1007/bf00214588
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Tissue Res ISSN： 0302-766X Impact factor: 5.249