Species variation in the testicular angiotensin converting enzyme promoter studied in transgenic mice

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 324-331

  Erickson, Robert P ^a   Kessler, Sean ^b   Kremling, Hannelore ^a   Sen, Ganes C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Post meiotic gene expression; Promoter analysis; Spermatogenesis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TESTIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; MUS MUSCULUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029783950     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199607)44:3<324::AID-MRD6>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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