Identification, isolation, and characterization of a 41-kilodalton protein from rat germ cell-conditioned medium exhibiting concentration- dependent dual biological activities

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3259-3268

  Aravindan, G Rolands ^a,c   Mruk, Dolores ^a,b   Lee, Will M ^b   Cheng, C Yan ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTESTOSTERONE; PROTEINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SECRETION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS;

EID: 0030873333     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.8.5349     Document Type: Article

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