Distribution and tissue expression of semenogelin I and II in man as demonstrated by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-26

  Bjartell, Anders ^a   Malm, Johan ^a   Möller, Christina ^a   Gunnarsson, Mats ^a   Lundwall, Åke ^a   Lilja, Hans ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

fertilization; oligodeoxynucleotide probes; Semen; Southern blot; spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 20; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DIGOXIGENIN; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PROSTATE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RABBITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEINS; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0030000742     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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