A novel stage-specific antigen is expressed only in early stages of spermatogonia in Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica testis

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 355-361

  Kobayashi, Tohru ^a   Kajiura Kobayashi, Hiroko ^a   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonia; Stage specific antigen; Teleosts; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; EEL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD15; IMMUNE SERA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; STEROID 11-BETA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTIS; TILAPIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031767910     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199812)51:4<355::AID-MRD1>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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