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Leydig Cells

"Leydig Cells" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Steroid-producing cells in the interstitial tissue of the TESTIS. They are under the regulation of PITUITARY HORMONES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; or interstitial cell-stimulating hormone. TESTOSTERONE is the major androgen (ANDROGENS) produced.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Leydig Cells" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Leydig Cells" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1999 and 2004
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.