Expression of the human antigen SPAG2 in the testis and localization to the outer dense fibers in spermatozoa

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 284-293

  Diekman, Alan B ^a,c   Olson, Gary ^b   Goldberg, Erwin ^a,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisperm antibodies; Flagellum; Infertility; Sperm cytoskeleton

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SPERM ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIGEN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOSKELETON; FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANTIGENS, SURFACE; HUMANS; MALE; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031834895     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199807)50:3<284::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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