d‐Aspartate stimulation of testosterone synthesis in rat Leydig cells
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- 12 February 1999
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 444 (2-3) , 160-164
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00045-9
Abstract
D‐Aspartate increases human chorionic gonadotropin‐induced testosterone production in purified rat Leydig cells. l‐Aspartate, d‐,l‐glutamate or d‐,l‐asparagine could not substitute for d‐aspartate a...Keywords
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