Involvement of blood serum in amphibian fertilization

Biocell

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-72

  Llanos, R J ^a   Whitacre, C M ^b   Medina, M ^a   Fernandez, S N ^a   Giunta, S ^a   Miceli, D C ^a  

^a Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biologicas   (Argentina)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood serum; Bufo arenarum; Fertilization; Pars recta fluid

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; TOAD; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOOD PROTEINS; BUFO ARENARUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; OVUM; RABBITS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO ARENARUM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031800417     PISSN: 03279545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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