Expression of amphiregulin in the sheep mammary gland

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-48

  Forsyth, I A ^a   Taylor, J A ^a   Keable, S ^a   Turvey, A ^a   Lennard, S ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphiregulin; Epidermal growth factor family; Nuclear localization; RT PCR; Sheep mammary gland

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEPARIN; RNA;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LAMB; MAMMARY GLAND; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYOEPITHELIUM CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; STROMA; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP;

EID: 0031027661     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03967-6     Document Type: Article

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