Telomerase activity in female and male rat germ cells undergoing meiosis and in early embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1120-1125

  Eisenhauer, Karen M ^a   Gerstein, Rachel M ^a   Chiu, Choy Pik ^b   Conti, Marco ^a   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GERON CORPORATION   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GROWTH REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; CAPUT; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0030939560     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.5.1120     Document Type: Article

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