Retinoic acid receptor α gene expression in the rat testis: Potential role during the prophase of meiosis and in the transition from round to elongating spermatids

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 549-556

  Akmal, Karin M ^a   Dufour, Jannette M ^a   Kim, Kwan Hee ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; PROPHASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031051140     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.2.549     Document Type: Article

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