Fertilization-promoting peptide in reproductive tissues and semen of the male marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 113-119

  Kennedy, Ann M ^a   Morrell, Jane M ^b   Siviter, Richard J ^a   Cockle, Sheena M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Deutsches Primatenzentrum ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

male fertility; prostate; thyrotrophin releasing hormone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FERTILITY PROMOTING PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; PROLYL ENDOPEPTIDASE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BULBOURETHRAL GLANDS; CALLITHRIX; CASTRATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; MALE; PROSTATE; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMEN; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MAMMALIA; MARMOSETS;

EID: 0030898575     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199705)47:1<113::AID-MRD15>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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