1. Establishment of Primary Culture of Sertoli Cells
Raquel L. Bernardino, Marco G. Alves, and Pedro F. Oliveira
2. Evaluation of the Purity of Sertoli Cell Primary Cultures
Raquel L. Bernardino, Marco G. Alves, and Pedro F. Oliveira
3. Preparation of Testicular Samples for Histology and Immunohistochemistry
Barbara Bilinska, Anna Hejmej, and Malgorzata Kotula-Balak
4. Rabbit Sertoli Cells: Immunohistochemical Profile from Neonatal to Adult Age
Valeria Grieco and Barbara Banco
5. Identification of Proliferative and Apoptotic Sertoli Cells Using Fluorescence and Confocal Microscopy
Jesús Martínez-Hernández, Vicente Seco-Rovira, Ester Beltrán-Frutos, Victor Quesada-Cubo, Concepción Ferrer, and Luis Miguel Pastor
6. Sertoli Cells Preparation for Co-Immunoprecipitation
Maria João Freitas and Margarida Fardilha
7. Profiling Signaling Proteins in Sertoli Cells by Co-Immunoprecipitation
Maria João Freitas and Margarida Fardilha
8. Phagocytosis by Sertoli Cells: Analysis of Main Phagocytosis Steps by Confocal and Electron Microscopy
Marina G. Yefimova, Nadia Messaddeq, Annie-Claire Meunier, Anne Cantereau, Bernard Jegou, and Nicolas Bourmeyster
9. A Method for In Vivo Induction and Ultrastructural Detection of Mitophagy in Sertoli Cells
Nabil Eid, Yuko Ito, Akio Horibe, Hitomi Hamaoka, and Yoichi Kondo
10. Assessing Autophagy in Sertoli Cells
Chao Liu, Jehangir Khan, and Wei Li
11. Molecular Mechanisms and Signaling Pathways Involved in the Nutritional Support of Spermatogenesis by Sertoli Cells
Luís Crisóstomo, Marco G. Alves, Agostina Gorga, Mário Sousa, María F. Riera, María N. Galardo, Silvina B. Meroni, and Pedro F. Oliveira
12. Assessing Sertoli Cells Metabolic Activity
Ivana Jarak, Pedro F. Oliveira, Gustavo Rindone, Rui Carvalho, María Noel Galardo, María Fernanda Riera, Silvina Meroni, and Marco G. Alves
13. Proteome Profiling of Sertoli Cells Using a GeLC-MS/MS Strategy
Rita Ferreira, Fábio Trindade, and Rui Vitorino
14. Gene Silencing of Human Sertoli Cells Utilizing Small Interfering RNAs
Hong Wang, Qingqing Yuan, Minghui Niu, Liping Wen, Hongyong Fu, Fan Zhou, Weihui Zhang, and Zuping He
15. Testicular Cell Selective Ablation Using Diphtheria Toxin Receptor Transgenic Mice
Diane Rebourcet, Annalucia Darbey, Michael Curley, Peter O'Shaughnessy, and Lee B. Smith
16. Regulation of Blood-Testis Barrier (BTB) Dynamics, Role of the Actin, an