Sak 57, an intermediate filament keratin present in intercellular bridges of rat primary spermatocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-105

  Tres, Laura L ^a   Rivkin, Eugene ^a   Kierszenbaum, Abraham L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Meiosis; Rat testis; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

KERATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATINS; MALE; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029740006     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199609)45:1<93::AID-MRD13>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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