PAX-2: A developmental gene constitutively expressed in the mouse epididymis and ductus deferens

Journal of Urology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1204-1207

  Oefelein, Michael ^a   Grapey, David ^a   Schaeffer, Theodore ^a   Chin Chance, Catherine ^a   Bushman, Wade ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

epididymis; vas deferens

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATOR GENE; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0029757139     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)65751-3     Document Type: Article

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