Molecular cloning and characterization of EPI-1, the major protein in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) cauda epididymal fluid

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 857-864

  Fröhlich, Otto ^a   Young, Leona G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA LIBRARY; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RHESUS MONKEY; RNA ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY FLUIDS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPIDIDYMIS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0029867339     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.4.857     Document Type: Article

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