Expression and function of the c-kit proto-oncogene protein in mouse sperm

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 194-203

  Feng, Huailiang ^a   Sandlow, Jay I ^a   Sandra, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EJACULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTO ONCOGENE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SPERM AGGLUTINATION; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030915946     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.194     Document Type: Article

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