Inducible nitric oxide synthase in the epithelial epididymal cells of the rat

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 789-794

  Wiszniewska, Barbara ^a   Kurzawa, Rafał ^a   Ciechanowicz, Andrzej ^a   Machaliński, Bogusław ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

iNOS

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON TYPE II; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; CAPUT; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031401182     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/R97063     Document Type: Article

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