Cytoskeletal differences between stereocilia of the human sperm passageway and microvilli/stereocilia in other locations

Anatomical Record

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-64

  Höfer, Dirk ^a   Drenckhahn, Detlev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Male Reproductive System; Stereocilia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; EZRIN; VILLIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INNER EAR; INTESTINE BRUSH BORDER; MALE; MICROVILLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; STEREOCILIUM; VAS DEFERENS;

ACTINS; ANTIBODIES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CILIA; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROVILLI; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0029990155     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199605)245:1<57::AID-AR10>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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