Molecular cloning and characterization of HE1, a major secretory protein of the human epididymis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 847-856

  Kirchhoff, Christiane ^a,c   Osterhoff, Caroline ^a   Young, Leona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Institut fur Hormon und Fortpflanzungsforschung IHF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; SECRETORY PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0029866407     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.4.847     Document Type: Article

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