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TGF-β3 Regulates the Blood-Testis Barrier Dynamics via the p38 Mitogen Activated Protein (MAP) Kinase Pathway: An in Vivo Study
15 Mar 2003
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Recent studies using Sertoli cells cultured in vitro to permit tight junction (TJ) assembly have shown that TJ dynamics are regulated, at least in part, by TGF-beta3 via the p38 mitogen activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway. This in turn regulates the production of occludin, a TJ-integral membrane protein, by Sertoli cells. Yet it is not known if this pathways is used by Sertoli cells to regulate the...
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