A processed homeobox gene expressed in a stage-, tissue- and region-specific manner in epididymis

Gene

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 271-276

  Nhim, Ron P ^a   Lindsey, J Suzanne ^b   Wilkinson, Miles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeodomain; Pseudogene; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HOMEOBOX; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CAPUT;

EID: 0031052828     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00666-X     Document Type: Article

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