Isolation and identification of sex-specific cDNA clones from the Syrian hamster Harderian gland

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-117

  Domínguez, Pedro ^a   Antolín, Isaac ^a   Prieto, Fernando ^a   Menéndez Peláez, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complement C3; Prostatic steroid binding protein; Sexual dimorphism; Subtractive hybridization

Indexed keywords

CLONING; GENE EXPRESSION; LIBRARIES; PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

BINDING PROTEINS; CDNA CLONES; CELL TYPES; COMPLEMENT C3; HARDERIAN GLAND; ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION; PROSTATIC STEROID BINDING PROTEIN; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; STEROIDS BINDING; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION;

RATS;

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; POLYADENYLATED RNA; PORPHYRIN; STEROID BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HARDER GLAND; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; TUMOR VIRUS;

EID: 0029981864     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19960601)34:2<111::AID-JEMT3>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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