Immunoexpression of Aquaporin-1 in the efferent ducts of the rat and marmoset monkey during development, its modulation by estrogens, and its possible role in fluid resorption

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3935-3945

  Fisher, Jane S ^a   Turner, Katie J ^a   Fraser, Hamish M ^a   Saunders, Philippa T K ^a   Brown, Dennis ^b   Sharpe, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BRUSH BORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FLOW; FLUID RETENTION; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETE TESTIS;

EID: 0031762473     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.9.6213     Document Type: Article

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