Expression and activity of hexokinase in the early mouse embryo

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 793-798

  Houghton, F D ^a   Sheth, B ^b   Moran, B ^b   Leese, H J ^a   Fleming, T P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enzyme activity; Hexokinase; Mouse embryo; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FETOPROTEIN; HEXOKINASE; ISOENZYME; PHOSPHATE; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CBA MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NIDATION; OOCYTE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEXOKINASE; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OOCYTES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOSPHATES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030253047     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/2.10.793     Document Type: Article

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