A novel endozepine-like peptide (ELP) is exclusively expressed in male germ cells

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-80

  Pusch, Wolfgang ^a   Balvers, Marga ^a   Hunt, Nicholas ^a   Ivell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endozepine; Germ cells; Haploid gene expression; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DIAZEPAM BINDING INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CATTLE; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHEEP; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SWINE; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030606865     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(96)03874-9     Document Type: Article

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