Region-specific localization of retinoic acid receptor-α expression in the rat epididymis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1111-1119

  Akmal, Karin M ^a   Dufour, Jannette M ^a   Kim, Kwan Hee ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; EPIDIDYMIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029968048     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.5.1111     Document Type: Article

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