Cloning and sequence analysis of rat fertilin a and β - Developmental expression, processing and immunolocalization

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 801-809

  McLaughlin, Eileen A ^a   Frayne, Jan ^b   Barker, Helen L ^b   Jury, Jennifer A ^b   Jones, Roy ^c   Ford, W Christopher L ^a   Hall, Len ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disintegrin; Immunocontraception; Metalloproteinase; Oolemma; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FERTILIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PUBERTY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TESTIS; WISTAR RAT;

ADAM PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031230679     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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