Localization of oxytocin receptors in the human and macaque monkey male reproductive tracts: Evidence for a physiological role of oxytocin in the male

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 527-532

  Frayne, J ^a   Nicholson, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor; Prostate; Testis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SERTOLI CELL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERUS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; LEYDIG CELLS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STROMAL CELLS; UTERUS;

EID: 0031745935     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.6.527     Document Type: Article

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